Drawn To Rope - Joh & Talloolah (3/3)

Drawn To Rope- Joh & Talloolah (2/3)

I set up a 4 hour podcast playlist to time myself for these, it works quite well. I stop painting when I stop listening.

A couple of in progress pics

This was one of my pre painted boards. I let the pink come through into Cat's cheeks. I think it also works nicely with the green.

Felt like I was working more slowly here. Or the glasses took a long time!

I didn't originally intend this style but wasn't happy with the way the colour blend was working (possibly as a result of a smoother surface) - I love this style and enjoy finding the tiny hints of colour hiding in the skin tone that I can bring out into bold hues and big strokes 😁🌈

I started to include the hands but then realised (a) I only had half hands anyway (b) they were maybe a bit ambitious for four hours...

Trying to hold off from lighter/ Ti white based colours until later on as these tend to get dragged in and make things chalky elsewhere.

I started with quite a strong blue pencil outline which in retrospect I think was a bit too strong and I was fighting against it in the face tones a bit.

Progress photos...