This is the reference for another Voodoo painting. |
He's very large, about 17.2 hh. [his back is well over my head] He is not classically "pretty", but he has a very noble face and eye. |
Another shot, giving more of an idea of his size, and the boniness of his head. |
Sketch |
I masked out his eye, and did an all-over wet-in-wet application of cobalt and indanthrone blue. Then I started working on the structure and shadows of his head and neck with a black mixture. |
I removed the mask over the eye, and you can see the "white" of the paper there - looks almost beige, in comparison to the background of the painting. |