Hello! Today I show a portrait of a young lad that I painted last year. Although I used a variety of acrylic paints, I mainly relied on Liquitex Basics and Golden Fluid. Although it's not very large, it took several months to complete, as I took breaks in between stages.
Here is how I built the painting in a nutshell.
After staining the pre-stretched canvas with a diluted sienna, and transferring the main outlines onto the surface, I established the main values using Paynes Gray. Then, I lightly underpainted with orange for under skin and clothing, blue in the background, and violet for under the hair. Afterwards, I began building up the actual colors, starting with the face.
Here are the main colours laid out. From this point on, it's mainly fine tuning the shapes and adding in details.
And here it is about 75% done. At this stage, what's left are adjustments of shapes, colours, values and more glazing.
And that is that. Thank you so much for visiting. Wishing everyone a great day.
