I wanted to record some of the guitars I have made. Kind of like the Little Red Hen. This particular guitar is my favourite of the nylon strung classicals, with a very thin spruce top and indian rosewood back and sides. I also wanted to get back into playing after a long hiatus. Starting out very simple with a Sor exercise - the musical equivalent of Run Spot Run... I decided not to try and compete with the birds. They are really much better at it than me.
Portrait Of Anne 7th Sitting
Another session yesterday. I started by applying some thin glazes on the left side of Anne's face trying to add a bit of depth to the shadow areas. Then I worked into that, using slightly more impasto paint. Last week I was struggling so much in bad lighting conditions that I turned on an electric light to give a bit more ambient light to her right side, and I quite like it so we've decided to keep it. I've added cadmium orange to my palette. It is a strangely cool orange that I've never been able to duplicate using cadmium yellow and red and as a tint with lots of white it makes a good colour for flesh lit by electric light. The same goes for alizarian crimson or rose madder tints. The left side of her face is picking up the natural light from the windows on that side and I'm using terre vert, raw umber, mars violet and ivory black. I was still not happy about something and I came to the conclusion I had the eyes too close together. Much to Anne's const...
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