Max and Tilly: Stage 3

Stage 3: Painting Tilly's face. For this stage, I focused on the continuity of my strokes and the amount of paint I used so that each figure would appear seamless with the other. For Tilly's hand you can see the under painting I have done in preparation for the final layer. I applied this same under painting for both heads.

Max and Tilly: Stage 1

Time for a new commission!

This portrait has an endearing quality to it, a loving brother gently kissing his baby sister.

Stage 1: Painting in the drawing freehand with a thin wash of Burnt Umber. I started with the figure on the left first and then used him as a reference point to paint in the baby girl. As I drew with a thin brush, I had a soft cloth in my other hand to erase the lines I didn't want. And then, when I couldn't see it objectively anymore, I turned the canvas and the photo upside down and looked at it again with a fresh perspective, comparing the features, angles, sizes and overall proportions.
Tomorrow I paint.