Harry Mulisch step-by-step

Here's my caricature version of Harry Mulisch (Dutch writer)
The first sketch is done with 2B pencil on paper. Then scanned and made an overlay layer in Photoshop. The yellow ochre was my key color. From there I build it up in one layer with (hopefully) harmonious colors. I don't work with many layers in Photoshop like some other artist do but I try to treat it like a real canvas. Working from thin (transparant) to thick (opaque).

Alla prima (wet in wet) oil painting

This was a fun and relatively quick painting (about 3 hrs)

oil step by step

First I applied the cardboard with 3 layers of gesso.
I transfered my sketch on the cardboard and used acrylic paint (burnt umber) to trace the lines.

After that I used the same acrylic paint to block in the shapes to get a good sence of the light/dark values and contrasts. I tried to make it not to dark except for the eyes were the main focus will be.

Then I started with my oil pallet. First layer with oils are mainly the greenish and bluish colors applied with thinned paint. These are the main cool colors, after that I started building up layers with a more warm pallet for the background (raw Sienna and Camium yellow mixed with Zink white).

For the figure I continued using cooler bluish colors to get a nice contrast with the background.
The whole piece is build up in many glacing layers of oil paint. Spend about 6 hours total on it.

 

Small seascape oil painting

Stitch digital color study

I tried to pay attention to the color combinations to make the image look more interesting.
This is a digital color study for a future painting.

oil painting W.I.P.

Billy Connolly - quick digital caricature -