|
Victorian Faces #9 oil on ply, acrylic ground 12.7 x 12.7 cm/5x5 in |
Another Victorian faces portrait. Painted using titanium white, ivory black and vandyke brown. I found vandyke brown in interesting pigment mixture to use. This tube was grainy in texture and I thought that might have been the age of the tube. I buy tubes of oil paint when I see them at garage sales and also inherited quite a few so they are really old! But I then bought a new tube and found the texture grainy, so I suppose that is a quality of one of the pigments in the mix. The faces I paint are from mugshots at least 100 years old and freely available on the internet. They are all women accused of some fairly minor offence, often sentenced to horrendous terms. I find their expressions very interesting, Some embarrassed, some defiant, some pathetic etc. Trying to capture the expression is my goal.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Love to hear from you. Please leave a comment!