Monday 8 December 2008

"It's ALL over now.........." 6" x 8", Acrylic on gessoed card, 2008


This is another transformation, I have gone straight with acrylic here for most of this painting.




1. I sketched her face in, with the TOM BOW dual felt pen (dark grey)

2. I then went straight with a direct painting technique of shapes of colours, not paying attention to details ( Broad Brush Strokes)

3. I added detail to the shapes of colours (Smaller Brush Strokes)

4. I tried to recover some of the drawing with Wolff's carbon pencil(4B) that I purposely wanted to show in the final work

Then without the reference sketch, I combine some subtle strokes around the painting with some overstatements in the hair to keep the semi abstract nature of that area alive!

6 comments:

emikk said...

lookin' good!

adebanji said...

Thanks Emikk!

Stefan Nuetzel said...

I like the freshness of your approach. She has also a nice facial expression.

adebanji said...

Thanks Stefan!

Marian Fortunati said...

I love the way you're describing your process... Very informative.

adebanji said...

Thanks Marian, that's what this blog is all about. Hope I'll keep this up cos I learn from the process too.