Going through unfinished work of late, as January as been trying to button up things in the studio and move unfinished items to done. This lady here is in her middle stages.
Of course, I've sketches and I think one watercolour of this painting as a study with the unicorn and dress, but I couldn't find it yesterday, so that is also on the list. You can see here, tho, that at this stage,as I'm building up her flesh tones, the white, blue, and violet I've laid down for the undertones in her skin. I always like to start with a cool base and then build up warmth over that.
I usually tend to move about a piece adding detail as I go, that is for oils and oil pastels and chalks. There is something about roughing in a piece then laying down the base layers and going in on a section to tighten detail that I rather like. When Stepping back to view what's been don.
There is a satisfaction in seeing the subject begin to peer out of the mist of the rough underlayers.
The painting has a figure in full dress and she is holding a little ormalu jewel box. In this section you can see the drapes of her gown are merely strokes of light over darker underlayers. One hand begins to receive the warm tones as the hand holding the box is still in it's cool tones.
This piece is called the Lady with a unicorn, as there is one in the painting. It is in such a rough state currently that I think I'll wait to share that if and when I finish it. Sometimes, in pieces like this, if I hit a point where I don't want to continue on, I can paint out things and play up the misty outter elemetents and end up with a piece I actually like as well.
It can have that feeling of a figure stepping out of a painting
and I rather like that; we shall see what becomes of our lady. But, for today, I wanted to share her with you as it's what I'm up to in the studio today.
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