I used a Blick panel 18 x 24. I put together a digital sketch (different photos pieced together in photoshop) and then drew a pencil sketch to size.
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| 2/01/2018 white tempera on red oil |
I drew on the white panel with black ink and then painted it over with cad red oil paint. That turned out to be quite a mistake in that the red was so slick that it was hard to get new paint to stick to it. I did mix some liquin in it so it would dry faster. that combined with the pre primed acrylic gesso was not a good combo. Since then I have purchased some Fast mat oil paint designed for underpainting. We'll see how that goes.
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| 2/05/2018 After layer of yellow was added and then more white tempera |
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some local color added
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After much trouble with getting the new paint to cover the red I ended up with this
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| 4/30/2018 |
The dog, the sofa and her hair were mainly done with tempera. After trying out a few tempera textural styles for her skin I decided just to go traditional grisaille.
Aside from technical difficulties, the next hardest thing was getting the lighting the way I wanted it since it was pieced together from different sources.
basically it was a series of many, many layers built up until I got the look I wanted.
During this painting I purchased an video tutorial on glazing by Will Kemp. It was extremely helpful and i used many of his techniques on this as I went along including his mediums which were various mixtures of liquin and linseed oil.
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| 5/27/2018 finished painting |
You can see I added more lighting and shadows including the window light on the floor in order to bring more depth to the painting.
Overall, I am pleased with how it turned out. it is not exactly how I visualized it but I learned a lot through trial and error. There are a lot of things i like about using tempera and oil together. They each have their strengths and weaknesses and I am learning the best ways to use them.
