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<\/a>\u00a0 They look as if they have a serious skin complaint!\u00a0 On the up side, his jacket looks the right colour, and I haven’t obliterated all the careful drawing, but that was a definite lesson in not trying to hurry because there is only a short time available at this moment. Better to leave it and tackle it when things are more serene.\u00a0 So that is what I did – and was rewarded by an altogether kinder painting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Things started well.\u00a0 I began by painting the darker areas using Sepia and Chrome Green to give some variation and depth, suggesting\u00a0 shadows where one figure overlapped the other as well as the facial ones already indicated.\u00a0 A few marks represented folds in clothing, etc.\u00a0 By working over the whole painting in this way, I … Continue reading “Portrait progress”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>I started by painting the background, partly to paint myself in and partly to reduce the amount of white canvas glaring at me.\u00a0 I may have used too bright a colour, but I can adjust that in time, and it does the job right now.\u00a0 The painting looks better even without working on the faces, so it has encouraged me to continue.\u00a0 Indeed, I rarely bin anything until it’s finished – sometimes you can surprise yourself!<\/p>\n<\/a>Then I tried again on the faces and hair.\u00a0 I feel much happier now.\u00a0 They are still a bit spotty but altogether warmer, more friendly.\u00a0 The shading is better balanced and the eyes of both\u00a0 are good for this stage.\u00a0 Her nose is twisted! and both mouths sulky, so more work there.\u00a0 Her muted green dress fits the colour scheme, his shirt less inclined to dominate the picture.\u00a0 Progress.<\/p>\n