tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69596716558957471502024-03-14T01:58:38.852-07:00KRISTY GORDONKristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.comBlogger195125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-57014303631760207222019-07-07T15:04:00.000-07:002019-07-07T15:04:50.246-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are two mentoring options available. For more information and to register go to <a href="http://kristygordoncourses.com/the-art-mentoring-program/">http://kristygordoncourses.com/the-art-mentoring-program/</a>Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-75498406206686866642016-02-17T05:43:00.001-08:002016-02-17T05:43:19.597-08:00Shaw TV Okanagan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-65287432766770267522016-01-12T21:35:00.002-08:002016-01-12T21:35:31.924-08:00There's still time to register for my still life painting class at <a href="http://register.asapconnected.com/CourseDetail.aspx?CourseID=91039">The New York Academy of Art</a> this spring! It's Thursday evenings from 6:30 - 9:30 pm from February 4 - April 28th! Register <a href="http://register.asapconnected.com/CourseDetail.aspx?CourseID=91039">HERE </a>today!<br />
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Refine the painting techniques of the masters in your own still life
painting. This course will cover essential techniques that will inform
all of your future paintings on any subject. Participants will learn how
to render such textures as metal, glass, cloth, paper and fur.
Demonstrations and discussions will cover the stages to developing a
painting: composition, design and color theory.<span> </span>The
beginner will learn fundamental principles such as how to mix colors and
render form. Learn to transform objects with the beauty of oil paint.Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-27760405196350282252015-11-08T12:32:00.000-08:002015-11-08T12:32:15.373-08:00Portrait Painting Workshop in Brooklyn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm teaching a portrait painting workshop in
Brooklyn in November and I would love for you to join us! Here is all
the information about the class, as well as the supplies list and
registration info.<br />
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<b>Contemporary Portrait Painting Using Classical Techniques</b></h1>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dates:
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This
three-day portrait painting workshop is a unique opportunity for
students of all levels to learn the process of painting the portrait in
oils using a full palette.<br />
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The course will center on the
experience of painting from a live model and there will be a single,
sustained pose throughout the workshop. Participants will learn how to
achieve a better likeness as well as how to paint convincing flesh
tones. Each day will include a painting demonstration, discussion and
individual instruction at the easel.<br />
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The beginner will learn
fundamental principles such as how to mix colors and render form
modeling. The more advanced student will discover how to take their work
to the next level and achieve the finish that they desire. These tips
can be applied to all future work and improve any painting of any
subject.<br />
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Discussions and handouts will cover the stages to
developing a painting, comparative measuring, proportion and structure
of the face and features, as well as glazing, value, edges, composition,
light, and modeling with color temperature.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">CANVAS OR PANEL</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">14”x 18” or 16”x 20” inch canvas or panel is a
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<span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Titanium White<span style="mso-tab-count: 11;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Synthetic brushes (brights) sizes 2, 4, 6</span></div>
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Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-16731034467276220822015-10-22T11:50:00.000-07:002015-10-22T11:50:14.549-07:00Crane's Flight in International Artist MagazineThis year has been an amazing year and I've felt so blessed to have my work published in so many of my favorite art magazines. Here is a step-by-step tutorial of my painting, "Crane's Flight" that Christine Egnoski, Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.portraitsociety.org/">Portrait Society of America</a>, graciously included in the feature on the Art of The Portrait in <a href="https://www.internationalartist.com/issues/num/103">International Artist</a> magazine. A huge thank you to her as well as to Joshua Rose, the Editor of International Artist for their support!<br />
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<br />Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-85320427107470741352015-10-21T14:55:00.001-07:002015-10-22T11:50:43.948-07:00Star Child in International Artist Magazine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm catching up on some past announcements here, and I realized I never shared this image of my painting "Star Child" which was included in <a href="http://www.portraitsociety.org/">The Portrait Society of America'</a>s "Master Showcase" article in <a href="https://www.internationalartist.com/issues/num/99">International Artist</a> magazine last year. It was such an honor to be showcased along with so many amazingly talented artists. I'm deeply grateful to Christine Egnoski and Edward Jonas from The Portrait Society of America for all their support!Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-41576027345382440112015-09-22T10:31:00.000-07:002015-09-22T10:31:16.955-07:00Plein Air Landscape Painting in Central ParkI think Central park is most beautiful in the fall and I'm loving
this weather! What better way to spend the last days of September then
painting in the park! I'm teaching a plein air landscape painting class this weekend (September 26th and 27th) and there are still a couple spaces left! No fancy equipment required. As you can see from the photos below you can even just use a cardboard box and some tape to make your own lightweight portable easel. Also if you don't want to buy a new set of paints we can make arrangements for you to use mine. Here's a description of the class. I hope you can join us!<br />
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workshop is a unique opportunity for students of all levels to learn the
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experience of painting outdoors (en plein air). Participants will learn the
fundamentals and principles of designing and executing plein air landscape
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I am thrilled to announce that one of my paintings, "Cree" (2014) has been featured on the September cover of The Artist’s Magazine. In addition to being on the cover, this issue includes an eight page spread on my work written by B.J. In the article I share details of my artistic practice including how I painted a portrait of myself swinging upside down. I’m grateful to B.J. as well as the magazine’s editor Maureen Bloomfield for giving me the opportunity to speak about my work and my process. You can order copies of the magazine <a href="http://www.northlightshop.com/the-artists-magazine-september-2015">here</a>, grab a digital copy <a href="http://www.northlightshop.com/the-artists-magazine-september-2015-download">here</a> and have a peak at the feature below.</div>
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Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-36664337032501986242015-05-13T20:55:00.002-07:002015-05-13T20:55:44.584-07:00Full Palette Notes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've decided to do a new post about my current palette, as looking back on my <a href="http://kristygordon.blogspot.com/2008/06/palette-notes.html">last post</a>
about my palette, I've realized how much my palette has changed since
then. It was fun to read my 2008 post, I had sch a cute, informal way of
writing back then that I feel like I would never allow myself to post
now. A lot of what I wrote still stands, my full palette is basically a
combination of the artists I have studied with, and has transformed over
the years. At this point it's a combination of <a href="http://www.lipking.com/">Jeremy Lipking</a>, <a href="http://www.juanmartinez.com/">Juan Martinez </a>and <a href="http://www.yuqiwangart.us/">Yuqi Wang</a>, with a little Kristy Gordon mixed in there as
well. I've taken a lot of the earth reds and browns off my palette now,
which forces me to mix from brighter pigments and create richer
colors.<br />
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I mix certain colors out to a "string" to
create a tonal range to work from. To do this I use a palette knife and
pull the color down to some white, mix it in and back up, creating a
darkest, middle and light tone for certain colors. I am careful to leave
the color at the back pure, with no white mixed in. Also, I don't do
this with the transparent colours anymore, such as transparent red
oxide, viridian and ultramarine, as mixing white in with these colors
would make them more opaque. Therefore, I keep white far away from them
since I want to keep them as transparent as possible. I also prefer
certain brands for the transparent colors, both Richeson and Windsor
Newton have the most transparent versions I have found of transparent
red oxide, burnt sienna, viridian and ultramarine blue. I like to have
transparency in my shadows, so by avoiding mixing white in and using
transparent brands for the transparent colors, I am able to get the
shadows to set back into transparent paint.<br />
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amazing thing I have discovered is something I learned from Alexandra
Tyng, where cadmiums, which are usually somewhat opaque, when mixed
together with a transparent compliment, become quite transparent. So
when I teach workshops with a full palette, I have the participants mix
these two separate shadow color mixtures: cadmium red light with
viridian green, and cadmium orange with ultramarine blue. These provide
the lovely rich shadow colors that I prefer over using the browns and
earth reds that I would reach for if I still had them on my palette.<br />
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have also developed a series of pre-mixed colors that I always have on
my palette. I even find the "flesh color" useful when I'm painting
plein air landscapes! The "flesh color" is a base color that I tint to
make it cooler or warmer as needed to match the color of the models
skin. The "blue mixture" is one that I learned from Jeremy Lipking.
It's a compliment to the flesh color (blue compliments orange) so when I
want to make the flesh cooler, but not darken it as adding ultramarine
blue to it would, this works well. It's already lightened to the tone
of the flesh color. I started mixing the neutral grey mixture as well.
I'm not sure when it started, it just happened very naturally, and it's
a very useful color for me to have handy.<br />
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<br />Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-59065499091589785062015-02-16T15:02:00.003-08:002015-02-16T15:02:29.591-08:00I'm Teaching a Workshop in New York in March!<div style="text-align: left;">
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Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-22675602641213929752014-12-10T13:45:00.000-08:002014-12-10T13:45:26.962-08:00Dacia Gallery Holiday ShowMy latest painting, "Radiate" will be included in <a href="http://daciagallery.com/exhibitions/2014-14-group-exhibition.php">Dacia Gallery</a>'s holiday show, Nunc Veritatem that opens tomorrow in NYC. It is such an honor to be included in this amazing show with artists I admire so much, such as Patricia Watwood, Daniel Maidman, Max Ginsburg, Leah Lopez, Erin Anderson, Casey Childs, Janet Cook and Adam Miller. I hope to see you at the opening tomorrow night (December 11th) from 6pm until 9pm. There will be artist talks at 7:30!<br />
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Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-9512640535214361592014-11-25T17:35:00.003-08:002014-11-25T17:35:50.611-08:00New Plein Air Landscapes in Winter Exhibition at Grenning Gallery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have a number of new plein air landscape paintings included in the "Gems of Grenning Gallery" exhibition at <a href="http://www.grenninggallery.com/gallery-Kristy%20Gordon.php">Grenning Gallery</a> in Sag Harbor, NY. Below are a few of the paintings I have included in the show, as well as some photos of me at <a href="http://ttpwebhost.com/cathlakesWP/">Cathedral Lakes</a> in, British-Columbia, Canada, painting on site. There will be an opening reception on Saturday December 6th from 5:30 to 7:30. I hope to see you there!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"<a href="http://www.grenninggallery.com/artdetail-3586.php">Stream from Pyramid Lake</a>," 8"x 10", oil on canvas</td></tr>
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<br />Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-36082730170377755382014-10-30T11:20:00.003-07:002014-10-30T11:20:44.509-07:00Solo Show at Cube Gallery Written Up in Fine Art Today!I am so grateful for the lovely write-up in <a href="http://www.fineartconnoisseur.com/Paintings-to-Solidify-Life-s-Passing-Moments/20213593">Fine Art Today</a> about my upcoming solo show at <a href="http://cubegallery.ca/exhibitions/2014_11_04_kristy_gordon">Cube Gallery</a> in Ottawa! I love what Jeffrey Carlson wrote about my work! The opening reception for the show is next Thursday, Nov 6th, from 6 to 9 pm. I hope to see you there!<br />
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<br />Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-25525929935001608232014-10-01T09:36:00.002-07:002014-10-01T09:36:59.234-07:00Newly Released Book "The Figure"
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
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this newly released book "</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Lucida Grande";">The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, Contemporary
Perspectives,</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">" published by
Skira Rizzoli. A huge thank you to Margaret McCann and The New York
Academy of Art for including my work in it! It is an amazing collection of
figurative artists. John Seed has written a wonderful review of the book
on <a href="http://hyperallergic.com/152075/contemporary-arts-body-language/">Hyperallergic</a>. You can order your copy of this amazing book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Figure-Painting-Drawing-Sculpture/dp/0847843750">HERE</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>
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<br />Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-29834937901062803682014-09-25T11:22:00.002-07:002014-09-25T11:22:03.604-07:00Figureworks Juried Show 2014<br />
I'm so excited that I have been asked to be on the jury for this year's <a href="http://www.figureworks.org/show.html">Figureworks </a>show in Ottawa, Canada, so I wanted to put the word out to all artists about this wonderful show. The deadline for application is Oct, 3, 2014, and you can find the submission guidelines on their website <a href="http://www.figureworks.org/2014/call-for-artists-2014.html">HERE</a>. This is going to be an amazing exhibition of figurative art and is open to artists internationally. I'm so honoured to be on the jury with the amazing artists <a href="http://www.matdube.com/">Mat <span class="gI"><span class="gD" name="Mat Dubé">Dubé</span></span></a> and <a href="http://andrewmorrow.com/home.html">Andrew Morrow</a> and I hope to see your submission soon!<br />
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Here are some photos from the portrait painting with a full palette workshop that I taught at <a href="http://www.lakecountryartgallery.ca/art-house.html">The Lake Country Art House</a> this summer. It was a wonderful group and we all had a really nice time! Also, here are some shots of the stages of my demo painting, taking it from the grisaille underpainting using Burnt Umber, through the block in of basic lightside and shadowside colours, to the final rendering of the planes and edges of the forms and features. We filmed a full-length video of the demo which you can check out on YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Ig7DjB1FI">HERE</a>.<br />
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I feel so honored that my painting "This Too Shall Pass" was printed in the current issue of <a href="http://www.fineartconnoisseur.com/">Fine Art Connoisseur</a> magazine. The article on women painting women includes the work of so many female artists that I admire so much such as Juliette Aristides, Michelle Dunaway, Leah Lopez, Teresa Oaxaca, Cindy Precious, Terry Stickland and so many others. A huge thank you to the editor, Peter Trippi for including my work in this article! Be sure to pick up your copy of the October issue of Fine Art Connoissuer! It's an amazing issue and I really enjoyed reading what Kelly Compton wrote about the historical and contemporary careers of female artists! <br />
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<br />Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-61695135732211880762014-08-21T17:01:00.000-07:002014-08-21T17:01:31.298-07:00Four Portrait Painting Workshops in BC!I had a busy vacation this past month, teaching four portrait painting workshops in BC while I was there! I started with a full palette workshop at the <a href="http://www.osarts.com/courses/instructors.php">Okanagan School of the Arts</a> in Penticton, then taught a limited palette workshop in Lake Country, followed by a full palette class at the <a href="http://www.lakecountryartgallery.ca/art-house.html">Lake Country Art House</a> and finished up with a full palette workshop in my hometown, Nelson, BC. All of the workshops were a ton of fun and everyone did an amazing job! Here are some photos from the workshops, as well as step by step shots of the demos I did in the classes. We actually filmed a full three hour video of the demo I did at the Lake Country Art House, and I'm editing that together right now, so I'll
post the video soon (*does anyone know if it's possible to post a
three hour video on Youtube? Most of the videos on Youtube are
shorter... will I need to post it on Vimeo instead I wonder? I'm
learning as I go :-) Anyway, congratulations to all the participants of
these workshops, you all did such wonderful paintings!<br />
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I was so pumped to see my painting, "The Unicorn," in the spring issue of <a href="http://ottawacitizen.com/tag/style-magazine">Ottawa Citizen's Style</a> magazine! A huge thank you to Patrick Langston for this support of my work! Ottawa has been so supportive of my work since the very beginning and I'm looking so forward to being there in November for my next solo exhibition at <a href="http://www.cubegallery.ca/">Cube Gallery,</a> which opens on November 6th, 2014!<br />
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<br />Kristy Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099132790032564987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959671655895747150.post-39121470933661635482014-06-23T20:22:00.000-07:002014-06-23T20:22:39.671-07:00Demo Painting From Ottawa WorkshopI had a great time teaching a workshop at <a href="http://www.thestudiocafe.ca/">The Studio Cafe</a>
in Ottawa last month! It was a three day portrait painting workshop,
working from a live model with a full palette. Below is the demo
painting I did in the class as well as a few photos from the workshop. I'll be teaching several workshop in BC this summer. There is still space in the one in Penticton and Nelson. For more information check out the workshops page on <a href="http://kristygordon.com/workshops/">my website</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Block in with
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">My canvas is prepared with a
mid-tone greenish grey ground, using white acrylic gesso tinted with a bit of
acrylic Yellow Ochre and a little Mars Black. I let it dry thoroughly then sand
it before beginning the underpainting. Using oily, viscous paint, thinned with
linseed oil, I mark in the basic proportions first. Measuring the proportions
to get the drawing accurate, I compare the width of the head to its
height.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I mark in three equal
proportions from the chin to the bottom of the nose; bottom of the nose to
eyebrows; and eyebrows to forehead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because her head is tilted down, the top distance (from the top of the
head to the hairline) is about an equal proportion to the thirds of the face. Next
I block in the big forms and shadows in Burnt Umber. By “drawing with the
shadows” I am able to establish the placement of the features quickly and
accurately by judging the shapes and distances of the shadow patterns on her
face.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I begin laying in the color by establishing a basic color for the light
side of the face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am leaving the
“real” shadows (the cast shadow on the neck and the cast shadows under the
eyebrows and nose), alone for now so that they don’t get mixed up with the
lights. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will go into them later. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I
tint the base color in the light side of the face as necessary, such as in the
plane change where the forehead bends up towards the light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, the light side of the face gets slightly
darker and cooler as it moves down the face (away from the light) so I make
sure my colors and tones reflect that change. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the edges of the face it also gets darker
and cooler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This helps to establish the
“big form modeling” of the head, rendering the head like an egg by darkening
around the edges, and turning the form to give it dimension.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Describing the Smaller
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I complete the color lay-in
by blocking in a basic color for each element of the painting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the shadow side of the face I tint the
base flesh color with a mixture of Viridian Green and Cadmium Red Light to
create rich shadow colors. I continue to establish the big form modeling,
making sure that the hair reflects the egg shape of the head, and the head and
body have a cylindrical nature. I paint the hair with a “Grainer” brush, which
has some long hairs and some shorter ones. I lay in distinct brushstrokes in
the hair and try not to mess with is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This creates wonderful hair-like texture. Using a 1” synthetic bright
brush, I block in a loose background, letting a bit of the under painting show
through. I also suggest the sheer nature of the shirt in a painterly
fashion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the key elements are
established, I define the smaller forms of the features, defining the planes of
the cheekbones, none, chin, etc. </span></div>
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this stage I thin my paint with a bit more linseed oil as I continue to refine
the features. Focusing on the description of the planes of each feature, I make
some final refinements. I also make the different textures (i.e. skin,
hair, cloth), look like the material they’re made of. Final highlights
are added to areas such as the nose, forehead and hair. I also refine the
edges, softening edges where the form turns as it meets the background, and
sharpening areas that are bony, or where I would like to draw more attention.
Edges are an area where an artist has a lot of artistic license. The way
edges are treated can really effect the mood of a painting. I like to contrast
soft, “lost” edges (where you can’t really discern where one thing ends and
another starts), with sharper edges.</span><br />
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