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<\/a>I think I’ve done reasonable well here – she looks altogether more human.\u00a0\u00a0 Although I have made corrections, I haven’t lost the vigour of the brush strokes, and have achieved more successful tones.\u00a0 The upper lip is still too light, and I would like a more nuanced tonal balance around the eyes.<\/p>\nThen, I t <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I turned to him – I worked on her face first in more detail.\u00a0 If you remember the mouth was very loosely indicated, her nose was twisted, and her hair was a rather dull brown, so plenty to do. I think I’ve done reasonable well here – she looks altogether more human.\u00a0\u00a0 Although I have made corrections, I haven’t lost … Continue reading “Further progress on the portrait”<\/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\/294"}],"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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>ackled her hair which is more auburn than brown or red.\u00a0 A touch of alizarin in the mix seemed to do the trick.\u00a0 I know the hair is a bit dome-like, but that was how it was done in those days – I know, I had one too!\u00a0 Even so the carefully sculpted side curl is too thick.\u00a0 It needs to be more airy.<\/p>\n<\/a> at least he now\u00a0 has a nose and mouth, and they are believable. \u00a0 His eyes are still too narrow and almond shaped. The modelling on the face is not that strange colour in actuality ( I haven’t worked out the vagaries of my camera yet).\u00a0 Both faces are still rather flat, so I need to attend to the shading again.\u00a0 Then there is the matter of making sure they both have space in the painting to be more than cardboard cutouts.\u00a0 Still progress has been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"