Popular portrait colors:
UB Ultramarine Blue
CB Cerulean Blue
Ver Veridian
COG Chromium Oxide Green
AZ Alizarin Crimson
BU Burnt Umber
BS Burnt Sienna
CO Cadmium Orange
VR Venitian Red
CRL Cadmium Red light
YO Yellow Ochre
CYL Cad Yellow Light
IB Ivory Black
W White
D1 Dark One : BS+Ver+CO ( a brownish-red warm dark color)
D2 Dark Two : BS + Ver + CO + W
N1 Neutral3: W + IB + YO ( a grey)
N2 Neutral5 same lighter
N3 Neutral3 same still lighter
HT1 Half-tone One: W+YO+CRL+COG+CO (orange)
HT2: Half-tone Two: W + YO+CRL + Ver (yellowish)
L1 W + YO + CRL (bright pink)
L2: Light Two: W + YO + CRL + CB lighter
L3: same still lighter
This week (first week of February) we will continue our study of colors used in portraiture.
Later we will study direct painting with very little or even no preparatory sketch, but for now we follow the more traditional, academic approach.
At my reception Friday (Springfield Museum, 6 - 8:30 pm), I will have some of my portraits on exhibit similar to the following:
This painting, "The colonist (Monroe)" , is in the academic style of the British School which influenced the early American school of portrait painting.
Also, one academic Italian portrait that was created using a four-step process shown below:
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