Went Portrait painting at USC Aiken today. What a great fun model to paint. Don’t u love his hair and his scruffy five o’clock shadow?!
Davis was painted in an hour and a half on cold press fluid15x22″.
Drew him in the first half hour session. I wish I had drawn him to include his hands til he started moving them around. Then I was glad I hadn’t. Models rarely reset their hands giving the painter much frustration.
Second break. Really moving along. Used my big size 14 Cheap Joes kolinsky sable.
Here he is again. Finished him off with my beloved size ten Charles Reid kolinsky sable from Cityart (Artexpress.com). Tell Randy I sent you. Truly a brush you will never regret you bought.
Darkened his hair. Love that brush. Lefties a few highlights on left cheek. Added a few more darks here and there. I could keep painting like get rid of the white around his ear but why bother.
Paint used. Alizarin for darks. Flesh alizarin cad red light and cad red light. Cheap Joes Andrews turq with Daniel Smith French ochre on background.
Shirt dioxzine purple and cobalt violet. The shadow on sleeve is pure dioxzine purple that I dipped my paint brush in and literally zig zagged down his arm.
Shadows alizarin Cheap Joes Andrews turq and dioxzine purple
Hair is Cheap Joes Andrews turq ultramarine and burnt sienna.
Margaret ready to put her feet up now.
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 
great work! very nice! i like the light in his face and i like the background around his face a lot!
may i ask you something? i am just about to start painting with watercolors. yesterday i started, but didn’t succeed in the first try, doesn’t matter, i keep on drawing. 🙂 what i would like to know from you, is if you paint on wet paper ground or not? have a great day, margaret.
best regards from berlin.
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do you water the paper before you start painting?
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No the papers dry but it got wet they the painting process. Aka it was not dried out the whole time I painted which was about an hour and half. Drying that happened was incidental during breaks. A lot of what’s called wet on wet. Aka wet paint on more wet paint. Check out Charles Reid videos on Instagram. Love him.
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thank you.
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🤗👍🏻
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