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Category Archives: Arthurian
Red Lips, Red Hair, Red Dress
The face is much improved thanks to a solid day of focused work, although the ear still needs to be fixed up. I spent a lot of time around the mouth and eye, re-shaping the contours of the shadows to … Continue reading
Letting Down her Hair
This was a really tiring day, although all I did was paint the hair in grey and glaze the marble. I wanted to make the marble floor richer so I put a Yellow Ochre over it, then wiped most of … Continue reading
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Red on Red
  This sounds crazy, but I’ve spent a long time painting the red dress red again with the Red Ochre, deepening the colour and adding and blending some blues into the shadows. I added a little Raw Umber into the Ochre and used … Continue reading
Lady in Red
It was a dramatic day of change for the Queen painting in the studio today as I added Red Ochre to the dress. I left the grey version of the dress alone to dry for a couple of days to … Continue reading
Wrapping up the Greyscale Drapery
Because I didn’t like the balance of the composition as it stood I’ve added more fabric to the left side of the dress, making it extend under the Queen’s hand and off the edge of the panel, creating a more … Continue reading
Fabrication
Now there’s colour in the window the composition is starting to make sense, with the figure framed within the blue sky. I like the depth that’s beginning to emerge, but of course the sky and sea will need glazing to … Continue reading
The Wall and the Queen’s Dress
Painting the clothing in grey is satisfying, although I’m not satisfied with the skirt, which looks too tight and uncomfortable in my drawing. I borrowed some fabric from the theatre next to my studio and will get my daughter to … Continue reading
Love my Vertical Monitor
Having completed the drapery study I needed to use it for reference beside the painting, so I scanned the drawing and put it onto my vertical monitor. Using the computer as an aid in the studio is the contemporary analogue … Continue reading
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Dressing the Queen of Cups
I’ve taken a morning figuring out the values of the face and neck, using a Foundation White as a local wet white ground, then White and a flesh mixture of Cadmium Orange and Viridian to generate the darker areas. Although … Continue reading
I’ve moved on with a new piece, with Suzy as my model (I’ll get to the Green Man’s ears soon, I promise). I photographed her during a Figure Drawing class several months ago, thinking that this pose was too pretty … Continue reading
