An Eye (A Work In Progress)

Today I painted an eye.  This is part of a larger work, the full details of which I’ll keep a secret for now.  I can’t get any further with that project today without doing a bit of shopping first.

Anyway, the eye is looking good.  Most of it uses only Winsor red, cerulean blue and raw sienna, these being very close to a set of three that the late Charles Reid recommended for skin tones.  Charles recommended cadmium red rather than Winsor red but I thought I’d take the easy option and choose three colours that I already had in halfpans in my experimental palette of 24.  The only other colour in there is viridian, which was mixed with the red for the black in the pupil.  Any green in the iris comes only from the blue and the raw sienna.

Watch this space to find out what’s going to happen to this eye!