Painting sylvester Stallone

Painting Sylvester Stallone

Painting Sylvester Stallone and although the photo here been taken head on and there isn't any really good light and shade this is a bit of a challenge.

In painting a head on view like this it is more difficult in getting a three dimensional effect. After the initial sketching in with pencil and making sure all angles and the structure was right I then started to paint.

Not exactly keeping to the pencil lines I started with a mix of ultramarine blue, yellow ochre and cadmium red mixed with plenty of water went in, you can see by the puddles at the bottom of the wash that there is plenty of water here. You can never get good blends from one colour into the next without using a lot of water in your mixes.

When the first wash on the face is dry I then block in the hair with ultramarine and burnt umber.

Once all the hair has had a first wash and that the wash of the face is dry I started to add middle tones down both sides of the face with a darker mix of the same colour and then rinse my brush and pull out these tones into the cheeks achieving a soft blend.

The eyebrows and eyes go in now with a dark ultramarine blue and burnt umber mix and the top lid and the eye lenses go in with the same mix and stroke.

A second darker wash of the same colour for the hair goes in leaving some of the first wash untouched for the middle tones.

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