Back to the markers and it's time to start on a new series of portraits.…
Captain James Tiberius Kirk
Today I had a go at the second in The Corbomite Manouver collection. Today it’s Captain Kirk, painted using the Shire supergranulators, befitting his yellow/green shirt. As will become the norm, the Shire supergranulators were supplemented with forest green and green apatite genuine for darker greens and burnt sienna for that little bit of warmth.
You know how I do these by now. Grid, pencil outline, mask some highlights and spatter some masked stars, add the colour and fiddle around trying to find a likeness until I feel that it’s impossible to do anything more. And that’s what I did today.
And this one is an even bigger flop than Scotty. There’s no likeness in the nose or mouth and, while the eyes might be OK of everything else was good, they’re unable to rescue this one. The spacey background is good as usual and I’m wondering now whether I should be using the supergranulators to do some night time landscapes to take advantage of their abilities. And the other things I like about this one are the shirt creases and the tilt of the head – there’s something about Kirk in there.
But, no, this one’s not going up for sale. In fact, after two bad portraiture experiences with the supergranulators, I’m probably going to give up on the Corbomite Manouver collection. Maybe I’ll put Scotty up for sale as an individual painting, though, as he’s started to grow on me. Watercolour portraits, though, are turning out not be as easy as I thought. I need to go back to the style I used for John Lydon and look for subjects that might benefit from a similar approach.
<Edit: after painting Spock, I decided the collection looks better than the sum of its parts and the three painting collection is now up for sale.>
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