SKIN COMPLEXION!!!! I took an interesting route for this piece this time. Compared to my grandfather's piece, I actually tried to purposefully create and underpainting that matched my reference photo and then began to add lights. The most interesting part of this process was definitely using the new medium that I bought at Plaza. It works quite similar to turpentine but has a luster that I literally absolutely fell in love with. Also, I definitely struggled with the clothing and the hair because I was working with wet paint which made it hard to create highlights on such dark backgrounds. Overall, this piece has taught me SO much about working with brown skin in general and one of my goals was to figure out how to make skin color look more warm and so I learned from Ryland to have a pinkish orangey underpainting. Although I don't love this piece nearly as much as my palette knife paintings, I still like the interesting brush work and the fact that it isn't as realistic.
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