Hitomi Tanaka, her smiling face, a digitally enhanced grisaille underpainting in oil colours on linen canvas, 20 x 20″, (experimental … More
Category: underpainting
Working things out
Graphite aquarelle pencils, watercolour, white acrylic primer, on A3 watercolour paper, Mar 22 2020
Began an oil sketch (bad photo…
…unfortunately due to the fact that it was taken under artificial light.) Some digital remastering / tweaking done for effect. … More
Hitomi (ひとみ,) Hokusai (北斎,) and Mount Fuji (富士山)
Now, after a great deal of thought and study, I have found a pathway that actually leads somewhere / some … More
Let the painting begin! [WIP] (A portrait of the artist Hitomi Tanaka)
N.B. This is merely a preliminary underpainting to the oil painting proper, i.e., it is NOT the finished work. Pen … More
My favourite modern / contemporary artist is a beautiful Japanese woman
I’ve transferred the image to a canvas, 18 x 32″, with pen and ink, and now begins the long and … More
Detail from the central area of an oil painting just begun… [WIP]
Colours mostly arbitrarily applied. From an oil on canvas 18 x 32″, but I might just cut the canvas down … More
Pink #2
This piece is in a raw unfinished state and am leaving the paint to dry before continuing. All I can … More
Image roughed in…
…with charcoal and oil colour, on canvas, 28 x 18″, July 27 2019, a work in progress.
Two trees in a field
[2] White roughly scumbled in [1] below: initial setting / roughing in and getting canvas (white) covered oil on canvas, … More