So, in my spare time (:-) I have been working on a rather large portrait of my son Luca. I am entering it into a portrait competition for the first time so I will let you know how I get on with that. It measures 1m x 1m, and is a study really as I have never attempted a large scale head before. I wanted to see how my technique would cope with it. I work in a circular motion, Cris calls it 'pixelating', but anyway its just how I feel most natural painting. I shall show a close up so you can see the strokes I use. This painting has about 6 layers, so you can see through the top layer in some parts right through to the first layer. I always start with the negative of an image, so everything that will be light starts off black and vice versa. I think it turned out fairly well, but have decided that my technique works better no bigger than life size.
Next blog is about a painting I am working on at the moment which is proving to be my absolute favourite of all my work, in a couple of weeks it should be ready to photograph. So, till then!
