Portrait from a Sketch
I scaled up from 7×5″ to 12×16″.
Category Archives: Personal Stories
Portraits from the Back
Helping to Fill Out a Form
Undated Portrait of My Brother
I was hoping to get some insight about portrait painting. I recalled that Picasso and Portraiture was chock full of interesting articles. When I opened it up, one of my old sketches fell out. This is a portrait of my older brother Mike. Mike is low functioning and autistic and nonverbal and now resides in […]
Taking Notes
Long Necked Woman
The palette I used for this portrait is the same as yesterday’s.. I used complementary colors to represent the half of the face in light (red) and the half in shadow (green). I know I need more ideas that using highly contrasting colors to represent light and shadow, to make progress in portraiture.
Woman’s Head
I started this sketch without refreshing my knowledge of abstract portraiture. All I had in mind was to contrast the bright side of the face with that in shadow. I used the complementary colors, red and green to do this. After blocking the main features with reds, reddish browns and greens, I filled in the […]
Waiting Woman with Phone
Can’t Pay Attention
Sometimes I have trouble focusing on the book I am reading. The image below is my solution for the problem of picturing lack of concentration. The portrait is more or less conventional. I’m not sure I got the eye rolling quite right, but they certainly are not focused on the book. I wonder if there […]
Reading Practice
