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Portrait of Max: background

I worked on the background. The wall behind Max is from a New Mexican Pueblo. It adobe and stucco. Rocks suspended in the adobe can be seen where the stucco has fallen away. I painted in the brightest colors that will appear in the rocks. I began to build in the color...

Max: Next stage (close-up)

Here is a close-up of Max’s face. There are still some drawing problems I need to sort out. Something is not right with the left side (our left) of the face. The cheek is flat. It doesn’t have the roundness of the other side. Is it the drawing or the use...

Portrait of Max: Next Stage

The painting at this stage has the background colors blocked in. I have also started to paint the figure. I have used more saturated colors at this stage. These colors will show though successive stages. The final skin tone will be made up of both physically and...

Portrait of Max

Here is the beginning of the underpainting for a portrait of Max. This is the next painting in my “Up Against the Wall” series.The drawing is done freehand in charcoal directly on the gessoed panel. Once I had the drawing the way I wanted it I painted in...