The approach of winter....
.....brings with it the switch to working indoors more often. In this case it was painting Kathy who came to sit for our weekly group. I couldn't tell if she reminded me of elf or someone getting a jump on the coming cold. (Kidding, Kathy, you did a good job.)
Driving to the model session I began to wonder how much I purple I could work into a portrait and still make it work. I had two different ones with me just because I threw a handful of paint tubes into my bag as I was heading out the door...but I can't remember what they were.
Knowing how they would likely effect the color I overstated the reds and yellows at the beginning and then worked in the purple as much as I thought I could get away with it. It didn't take much of the stuff to twist the colors to grays so I had to be careful. For example, that background is brilliant yellow, purple and white.
I had fun with this one and it went along pretty easily. Sometimes I like to leave unpainted parts of the canvas. I think it's because it retains the magic of how a flat panel can begin to look so dimensional with a few strokes of value and color. It's only paint.
Less than two months until the days begin to get longer. Yes, I'm counting.
Thanks for looking!
