Now I have established a basic foundation of raw sienna and burnt sienna washes with some cool greys, blues and greens for contrast I am going to focus on getting those eyes.
Click on the image to bring it up nice and big and you can see the stages it took to complete the eye.
To complete the face I continued with darkening colours and adding form which is show in the image below.
When I had finished I realised that his face was a bit too thin so I put some more flesh on his face to make him fuller by painting more raw sienna all along his cheeks from under his eyes down to his muzzle. I used my customary spatter to complete the painting.
Click here to see him as a print – perfect to create your log cabin look!
I just love your work. So sweet.
I am glad it resonates with you Caitlin – do you paint at all?
About once a year I pull out the paints and have a grand time creating something that usually turns odd and abstract. But no, not really. I don’t seem to have control over a brush.
Oh dear! That is so funny – but perhaps if you pulled out the paints more than once a year you would?:)
Haha, you’re probably right!
Wow, that is just beautiful! I love the eye detail, it looks very realistic.
Thank you Milka!
Hi Wazeau – thanks very much. If you want to look at it again I have now re-inserted the demo photos so that they will enlarge very big when you click on them. They weren’t working before!
another excellent demo series! Thanks for the posts!