work progress 12/31 – roughing in skin

0 comments By Kevin Filed in Uncategorized Tagged with colored pencils, fosse, Gia, masking, oil pastels, work progress December 31st, 2009 @ 9:23 pm

I thought it might be possible to finish this before the year’s end, but I still have too much detail work to do, so this will be the first painting of 2010 for me.
Last night I managed to get the textured gesso down on the skin areas, so today I was able to start right in on coloring the skin. Colored pencils were used over each area to get the color tones, then oil pastels were rubbed in to blend and contour it all. There’s some weird light reflection hitting her right forearm in the reference photo – looks too weird on the painting, so I might remove it and make it similar to the other forearm. Otherwise, I still have to detail the skin, vest, and fishnet stockings, plus paint in the white gloves and hat. Hopefully I’ll get to it all tomorrow…