It has been raining like mad here in Ibiza, huge thunder and lightning and sideways rain....the kind that works its way beneath windows and doorways and accounts for the flooding of not one, but two studios this week!!!! I have been without internet, electricity, tv and phone for most of the week, with a mop in one hand, running up and down the stairs to the electric panel...
I did get to town today to invest in another background idea for Veronica II, a sort of dusty aqua color. I was looking at a Modigliani background with a dark underlayer and a lighter, sort of atmospheric overlayer... this will require some layering, getting a bit darker , getting rid of pattern.... one step at a time...if I move away and come back to it perhaps I will be able to see it again...
I did get to town today to invest in another background idea for Veronica II, a sort of dusty aqua color. I was looking at a Modigliani background with a dark underlayer and a lighter, sort of atmospheric overlayer... this will require some layering, getting a bit darker , getting rid of pattern.... one step at a time...if I move away and come back to it perhaps I will be able to see it again...
ok, here comes Veronica III, the first canvas of the series. I really like this image, upclose and personal, with a strong facial expression and lots of light lines across the face and chest. and I just love the bracelets on her arm. (I know you can't really see them yet in the image, but they are coming!)
here is the first layer of the underpainting...the green layer of an underpainting is called "verdaccio" and when it sort of peeks through from behind the flesh paint layer above it, it really makes the skin look alive.
here is the first layer of the underpainting...the green layer of an underpainting is called "verdaccio" and when it sort of peeks through from behind the flesh paint layer above it, it really makes the skin look alive.
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