Johnny Depp painting Demonstration

Johnny depp painting demonstration

Johnny depp painting demonstration using the wet in wet technique and here I used a burnt umber diluted with turpentine to thin the paint and aid drying. Starting a few inches below

the top of the canvas I started to paint in the basic head shape and here it is important for the placement of the head on the canvas. He is looking out to the right in the photo that this painting was done from and his head was slightly turned to the right so we put the head shape just to the left of center so that he is looking into the canvas and not cut off by the edge of it.

Here all the basic head shape has been painted in albeit rather roughly but this is how I work, you might be more careful.

I now start to paint in the dark tones where I see them using a scrubbing action with the brush just to roughly get these areas in. No likeness is even thought about as yet as this will come around three quarters way through the portrait. I painted in a few strands of the hair using burnt umber and ultramarine blue.

The shadow areas of the right side of his face were added and the tone looks a little on the purple side here but when I get the other colours down onto canvas this colour will be muted.

All the darker tones of the face, beard, moustache and hair are added now using burnt umber, alizarin crimson and a touch of ultramarine blue. Here I have started to paint in the background with a thin mixture of ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson and a touch of yellow ochre.

Middle tones are added to the head scarf or do they call it a bandana by painting in some of the darker colour into the light colour and visa versa to achieve a blend, don't forget here we are using a wet in wet technique.

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