Time for another step-by-step painting? I think so! This one is also a portrait study, which means that it's smaller, less detailed and less time-consuming than my usual full-blown portraits. My grand idea is to make two largish paintings of my kids.
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Step 1. Drawing using the grid method.
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Step 2. First wash!
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Step 3. Doing mostly negative painting this layer. I could have called it done at this point but I wanted more definition.
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Step 4. Adding depth.
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And the final result!
P.S. A song about apples and oranges, by Elijah: