Studio Time

I figured that I may as well put in the red forms… I added the orange form on the right… That empty green space was just throwing things off and I want another largish orange form on that side. I’m thinking it will balance the striped objects, pull things forward a bit and set the queen herself back a little in space. I’m a little frustrated with that dark space on the lower right as well but I think that may work in the final image. I need to make it a little more interesting though.

I scrubbed purple madder into the robe/hair form. The color there is actually pretty accurate (The greens in this image… not so much.) I scrubbed the left side back nearly to black. The texture there is the texture of the canvas. That entire form will have a narrow highlight across it and the color will change a bit. It’s actually somewhat close to what I was looking for. I blocked in the wing/arm forms with purple madder and titanium white as well. I’ve decided that purple madder is the true color of evil. Black doesn’t hold a candle to it. 🙂 (Caput mortuum, on the other hand…)

The next real decision, for me, is what to do with those forms inside the robe. I can go with a bright blue that will add contrast and blend with the colors in that space or go with something jarring like an orange or yellow. Blue wouldn’t be my typical decision… I should probably go with that. I’m going to do the bones in the wings a bright yellow. It might make for an interesting interplay between the two colors.

Most of these colors will get more intense. 🙂 I’ll eventually clean up her lipstick.

Colors: Winsor Newton’s cadmium red deep, purple madder and cadmium yellow deep, Sennelier’s alizarin crimson and titanium white and Rembrandt’s Chinese vermilion and cadmium red light.