detail, oil on canvas, 24″ x 36″
2017 variation
A new version of the original painting. It is still work in progress.
lX XVll
2018
The stages that led to this painting.
A sketch in watercolour that goes back some way, It has problems but it was the pose and lighting I was after.
Onto a small oil canvas and with the big errors removed, also a more pleasing pose. I had the background dark so I could get my highlights right.
Background lightened and the sofa added.
Dragged the dark and shadows to let the highlight of the background show.
Then the figure. Painted in. A soft effect to the modelling
In this version I used a little photoshop…because you can lol.
Oil study. Ive been doing some ‘catch-ups’ with projects never completed This one so far. 15 x 8 (2018)
Acrylic on board (2018): again a reworking of an old idea: metamorphism, circle of life, mortality and rebirth.
June 2018
stage 2 oil.
