Studio Time

I got a bit obsessed with this yesterday and spent a while calmly modeling forms, making changes to the colors, adding shadows and highlights and generally enjoying myself. All the while, I had the nagging thought in the back of my mind that I just couldn’t allow that orange form in the upper right get away with running out of the composition. So… I imprisoned it in a small blue cage. This, of course, screwed up the way everything else in that corner worked and I spent a bit of time reworking things up there. …Over and over again.

Finally, I had it exactly the way I wanted it… stood back and thought it over, then wiped everything off, smeared in the sketch for the revision with my finger and calmly put the brushes away. Despite my frustration, I did not injure the painting. Now, I think I need to figure out a way to reflect that change in the lower left corner. 🙂 That shouldn’t be a big deal…

Colors: Liquitex Manganese Blue (A truly old tube… probably untouched since the early ’80s. I actually had to break the cap off with a pair of pliers.), Sennelier’s Titanium White and Naples Yellow Light, Rembrandt’s Cadmium Red Light and Winsor Newton’s Prussian Blue.