Painting in Progress

For our next series, with a working title of "Mix and Match", we are planning 3 (or 5, we're still discussing it) masks and paintings that follow a similar color scheme and style so that a buyer can purchase the mask and the painting she/he likes!

The painting I'm currently working on is a moody looking guy and I took a couple of "in progress" photos to share with you.

Here is stage 1 (well, this is really about stage 3 in the total process). I've filled in all the white spaces (except for in the hair) and have the major points of the skin tone done. You can also see my fancy tin foil covered palette that I use. ;)


And here is stage 2! This is taken about 4 hours after the first photo and about 8 hours into the total painting. There's still several hours worth of work to do on him, but I usually like to stop for a day or so once I get to this point so that I can come back fresh. Some of the color got washed out in the photo since I used a flash.