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| After Rubens portrait oil 2 layers |
Went back to oils last week. I wanted to try the Flemish method and copy some portraits. This is the first. After laying in the first umber layer. It is too dark - not because of the umber layer but the overpainting which I did in acrylic to save drying time. The downside was that I could not wash it to knock it back which would have been the case for oils. I will continue but I have started a second - below. Because of the drying required between each layer I will follow these 2 up with 3 more to keep momentum.
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| After Rubens portrait -oil 1 layer |
Last year was the first time I participated in inktober and I realised how poor my draftsmanship was. I did a lot more work in pens through the year.
Here is the start of this years. The ink sketches and studies have been about 30 min each.
I will continue to do those but for the inktober work I will give myself no time constraint. These were about 2 hours - planning to completion.
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| Inktober 1 |
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| Inktober 2 |
The ink studies for last week are below.
This is an ink study - messed up the eye so went into photoshop to amend.
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| After Reubens portrait ink- |
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| After Edward Seago, South Bay Quay, Singapore |
Photo study.
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| Urchins ink |
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| After Frazetta ink |
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| Plant ink |
