Category Archives: underpainting

Underpainting finished

Went back in with some Pthalo Blue acrylic. Deepend areas, added some shadow to the arm, chiseled away the pointy shoulder… then popped out the whites again.

Tomorrow and this weekend I start some oil layers. Woo hoo!

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Some value..

Went in with some white and blue acryllics to pop the values a bit.

I’ll probably do 2 or 3 more layers like that, pushing and pulling the values up to a point I’m happy with.

Then, oils…
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