Chris Vodnik » Boy with red shirt http://chrisvodnik.com fine art and design Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:41:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Portrait – Boy with red shirt http://chrisvodnik.com/2008/05/portrait-boy-with-red-shirt/ http://chrisvodnik.com/2008/05/portrait-boy-with-red-shirt/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 04:18:24 +0000 Chris Vodnik http://chrisvodnik.com/?p=10 Continue reading →]]> Boy with red shirtSo tonight I started on a new painting. This is a son of my friends. I painted a portrait of their other son so now I have to even up the portraits in their house. Good thing they only have two kids…

Colors that I have started with are:

  • Transparent Oxide Brown
  • Terra Rosa
  • Raw Umber
  • Alizarin Crimson
  • French Ultramarine Blue
  • Winsor & Newton Soft Mixing White
  • I also use Winsor & Newton Refined Linseed Oil for thinning

This will be on 11×14 stretched canvas. I have started by sketching out the image from a photo. Since children this age have a hard time staying in one place for more than 3 seconds, a picture will do.

Since I am a techno geek as well, I have a Wacom tablet and Corel Painter. I like to use it with the photo to get an idea how the oil painting could look. Since the photo has a back of a chair and some other things in the image I used Painter to brush them out. Painter is a fun program. I have a few of their “brushes” and I must say it does capture some oil techniques rather well.

Tonight I will be placing just the basic colors and I will call it a night. I probably will not get to this painting for a few days. Maybe tomorrow night if I am lucky.

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