Anne's Portrait 5th Sitting

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The fifth sitting of Anne's portrait. We did another four hours yesterday and I finally feel it's starting to get somewhere. I reworked much of the face, concentrating on the eyes. It's starting to become a painting rather than just an illustrative picture. We start our session in late morning and the sun moves gradually over Anne's face. There is a lot of reflected light coming in from her left side and from off the floor. If I was being more pragmatic about it, I wouldn't have set it up with direct sunlight and in fact when we started, there wasn't any! My studio space has a lot of windows on three sides, and so it's quite difficult to control the lighting. It's becoming more of a problem to me and I'll have to address it at some stage soon.



Comments

erika husselmann said…
I am enjoying this journey through your portrait painting of Anne. What an interesting face. I am in awe at your handling of your thick paint, almost as if you're sculpturing her face at the same time. The colours are beautiful. Keep going!
June 9, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Paul Hutchinson said…
thanks for following this journey Erica! Not sure where its going or how long it's gonna take..!
June 10, 2009 at 11:29 PM
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