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Process of a Painting: starting the jacket

Working on the jacket. Using a fancy tube of turquoise, white, and yellow.

Process of a Painting: deepening the background

I deepened the background with a glaze of watery blue-black. It had the effect I was hoping for, but I think I'll go back later and pull out a few colored shapes. Hair is looking better with deeper shadows and some lighter highlights. Next I'll paint in the jacket and piggy...have to dig up my other resource photo...er....

Process of a Painting: color matching

Painted the hair yesterday and touched up the face. I didn't save and of the skin tone, so I'm having a tough time matching the color...argh...frustrating! Also I think the hair could pop more from the background. Today I'm going to tone down the background with a transparent cool glaze and add some shadows. We'll see....