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Portrait of Letitia
Oil sketch in two hours
A South American beauty. 2005. Oil on canvas, 30x20 inches.
This portrait sketch was done in a single sitting of two hours.
I would like to have had longer, but I would not have made the painting much more complicated. I would have liked to emphasize the simplicity of the forms, by using fairly flat colour. The way the blue seems almost luminous is not an exaggeration caused by photoshop: it is actually like that. I do not fully understand why.
Click for my earlier painting of Letitia.
Technical information
- Imprimatura: dilute raw umber on a white ground;
- initial drawing: raw siena diluted with a lot of medium;
- cool darks: raw umber;
- background: ultramarine blue and white, with a little raw siena;
- highlights: raw siena and white.
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