As I explain in the next post, I wanted to test out what sort of…
LumenF
I didn’t have much time today but still wanted to do some painting so went for a bit of figure drawing with the inktense pencils. It’s LumenF’s debut today as a model. I think her photos have only recently appeared at PoseSpace because I would have painted her before now if they hadn’t: her poses seem really energetic, making for more interesting paintings.
Colour-wise, I opted for just shiraz and sea blue, having found out a while back that they work well together. I started with both colours together in the darkest places, then the blue on its own for any semitones that were adjacent to the darks. And that left me with some semitones on right-facing surfaces, where I used the red on its own. Just add water. And that was me done.
There’s a lot to like about this one. Lumen’s right hand and arm, some painterly marks, the reproduction of the energy in pose. I quite like it. The worst thing about this one was the bit of head that I painted and the hardness of the shadow on her shoulder. For this blog post, I’ve cropped out the worst bits but the page of inktense works up for sale shows the whole painting, which is only fair.
Anyway, yes, this is up for sale.
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