This past Saturday afternoon I did an alla-prima portrait demo at Leoni Duff Studios in downtown Launceston. For students in my workshop and the public, the idea was to show the steps in the completion of a portrait collapsed into a couple of hours. Leoni’s husband Alan was kind enough to offer his handsome face for me to paint.
The following progress shots were taken at various points over 2.5 hours:
Setting proportions
Wash drawing
Beginning colour lay-in
Setting background colour
Modelling planes
Adding smaller forms
Fixing shapes
Completed portrait –
One can always use just one more sitting
Above pics by Lynne Davies, Darren Day and Joanne Mitchelson – Thanks!
Some press coverage from the Launceston Examiner, Nov. 24 2013.
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Thanks for sharing this. Can't believe how you could get such a lovely likeness in so short a time. You really captured the essence of Alan's character! Beautiful!!