Day two of painting the portrait - original oil painting by @mayasky

Hello fine people!

Today I'm going to share the updates of my latest portrait painting.

To the left is the painting as I left it yesterday and to the right is the painting after today's session. The painting measures 20 x 30 cm and was painted on gesso primed panel.

So today I focused on pumping up the light effect and get more temperature shifts in the lightshape.

This is the painting as I left it yesterday. It's got a first layer general colors and values. After coming back to it today I felt like the skincolor was too orange and the shadows needed to be darker.

The first thing I did was go in with a thin brush and lay inn some notes of darker value. This was to set a contstent for my self and the rest of the values I will put in later. Now I know what my darkest dark is so I can relate that to the other values to make the best possible light effect.

Then I went in with some cooler halftones and highlights to establish how much lighter I could go. At this point it does look like they are very cool because of the orangy tones in the skin. Fear not, that impression will go away soon!

Here I have covered most of the light form with my new values and color temperatures. I've also started to put in some darker tones in the shadows. Now I'm going to work a bit more on the features and bringing the light and darks together through modeling the halftones.

So now I'm starting to work a bit more on the features. I'm adding in some darker values and working with smaller brushes to model the form

The process is moving forward, I'm softening edges and modeling more form.

I decided to add in the neck and chest area. I was a bit in doubt, but I thought, why not?

And here is where I ended up after today's session! 😊 There still are things I want to solve and hopefully I will get time to do that tomorrow!

Like, I still feel like the painting needs to come more together as a whole and I think a lot of the edges till can be smoother..

This painting turned out to be a lot of fun so far which was a happy surprise! It was a spontaneous decision to start it yesterday and I think it was just what I needed to just let loose and have some fun with my oil paints.

What do you think?

I hope you are all having a wonderful and creative day! 😊

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