Adjustment, adjustment. Today, I worked on layering flesh colors without any light on over the canvas. I think that this technique helped me mute the shadows a lot. David's nose was a bit too wide so I had to move his eye, on the right as I view his face, over to the left.
My face is rounder in this new version, a nod to the Bernstein side.
I'm not sure about the yellow in the background.
I'm really happy with my painting session today especially since, at moments, I enjoyed using thick paint instead of delicate glazes. I love that. Something about David's head looks like Johnny Carson--but I'm not complaining!
It's great to see this evolve. I think one thing that's happening with the newer version is your mouth is looking closer to how it looks in the photo. David looks very much like David!
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Would like to know your thoughts about the final painting if you have new ones.
ReplyDeleteAnd, by the way, your live journal is fun to read. I would love to read some West African language in your short story--or whatever develops from your trip to Mobile. (Would post on your journal, but don't have a clever name for myself, though do have a portrait I could use.)I agree it's amazing that people were speaking their native language as late as 1950... Too bad it's not still around--or I wonder if a linguist could identify the African rhythms in the speech of African Americans who live in Mobile now.