Karin,

Thanks again. I can't see your latest attachment, but I'll try to come up with something.

Pattern

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Karin,

Thanks; this is a valuable learning experience for me, and I'm sure it has also helped others who have been following this thread.

Dan
 

I admire your tenacity Chuck.

Jean

With color
 

The painting is still in progress; here is its state as of this morning.

Here is the close-up. The image on screen seems to have higher contrast than it looks like in person.

Hi Chuck,

You did a splendid job with the underpainting, with all your hard work!

I realize that the painting is in progress, and have a few suggestions (I assume you want some feedback, since you post this under the 'Oil Critique' section):

The skintone (as well as the upper half of the painting) look very 'warm' right now.

The colour and value of the background is too close to the colour of the subject face. I would change the (colour or value) background to bring the face to the viewers' attention a bit more. Are you in the process of glazing another colour over the colour of the background?

It also seems like the upper half (background) colour is competing with the colour of his shirt. I would determine a local colour and that would be the 'dominating' colour. Right now, the blue of his shirt and the background colour are competing with each other (not sure if I make myself clear here).

Are you glazing this painting, or painting directly over the underpainting?

The more I look at this painting, the more I like the subject's expression. I look forward to see the progress of this painting.

Sincerely,

Mai :)

Mai,

Thank you for your comments. I realized that the color of the painting as I posted it wasn't very accurate. I took another picture, adjusting my camera's white balance, and this looks more like the actual painting. This is with virtually no changes to the painting. I'm sorry if my earlier posting misled you. Let me know if your various comment still apply.

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