19th May

This weekend's sketches. Adding a touch of shading. Not particularly tidy though.

10th May

Some sketches from the weekend. I thought they looked OK but now they just look clumsy.

Pictures drawn from life (scavenger hunt on WetCanvas).

Charcoal drawing from a Nickolas Muray.

A few sketches from Alphonse Mucha's drawins, prints and paintings.

Colour mixes

After doing a bit of computer analysis I found that the skin tones were very low saturation. That is, he used a lot of black or rather grey. The shadows tend to be yellowish (or rather brown) and the highlights pink. Inbetween there are purples (chest) and greens (under left breast). So I tried mixing the purples and greens using crimson, cadmium red, yellow ochre and cadminum yellow with varying mixtures of reducing amounts of black versus increasing amounts of white. Although crimson and cad. yellow provided the clearest purple and green, all the colours mixed with the largest amount of white seems to be useful.

Seignac - Figure sketch

Sketched out the figure before painting. Originally I was just looking to use line but ended up adding the tonal values.