I was one day thinking about doing a portrait painting since it had been a little while since I had done one. I thought that it would be really good to share with my readers who are interested in art especially portrait painting. Portrait painting is approached in different ways for many artists. I just like the beginning stage and the stage where I can see the features emerge from out of the ugly stage. Speaking of the ugly stage of a painting you must believe that what you are doing will bring you to your desired expectation. I guess you can say that you paint by faith believing that what your goal is for a particular subject will come out in the way you intented. I will share with you the follow stages of the process.
In the first stage stained the whole canvas with deluted paint using yellow ochre and burnt sienna. I used a small round brush number 2 to draw in the porportions.
Now I have painted in the dark tone values in the portrait which will serve as a foundation structure through out the rest of the painting. I used all burnt umber for the phase.
As you can see, I have at this point of the painting have entered into the ugly stage. I mixed some yellow ochre and burnt sienna. I pretty much block in all the lightest value with this color mixture.
Now I have placed in the light value in the beard and mustash. I have filled in the general form for the eye socket. You can also see the lips in it's form.
Now I have started to put in the eye brow and added some darks in the beard. At this point, I have placed in the shadow underneath the chin that is casting down onto the neck. Also the eye ball is now painted into the eye socket.
Now I have started to place in the details such as the eye glasses and teeth. The beard is developed even more with the merging of values using the darks and lights in the beard.
Here it is the end of the process for painting this portrait I was very pleased with the result considering I approached this painting in a more loose way. The shirt is full painted and the hair on the head is complete by adding some dark values. Thank you so much for reading my blog and you can see the complete development of the portrait on my YouTube channel Dee Weaver Art. Here is the link https://youtu.be/f9Q-ygH-vGI
