If you have ever worked with oils before, you will know that it requires a lot of patience in-between layers for the paint to dry. Unless you are painting All Prima, even a simple painting like this one can take months to complete simply for the time necessary in-between glazes.
Step 10: Second layer
Step 11: More layers
Step 12: The lips
Step 13: Layer complete!
I again work on the eyes first. It was at this point that I decided to change the eye color of the model that provided the stock photo. (With my computer going on the fritz last year I seem to have lost the name of the talented stock artist. When I track it down, I will update to provide a link). She has such beautiful doll-like features that I felt vibrant hazel eyes were appropriate.
In this photo, I think I was fixing the iris in the right eye while smoothing out the texture of her skin.
In this progress photo you can see just some of the reference pictures I used to help me complete the painting. Many artists today use graphs to complete their paintings. I do everything freehand for two basic reasons. The first is simple: the time spent building a graph on the reference photo and canvas is time wasted when I could be completing the work through traditional methods of basic drawing skills. The second reason: photographs are distorted and adjustments need to be made to make the image look more natural.
Why so many printouts? Traditionally, one printout of the stock photo is all I need when I am working on a much smaller scale. This painting is larger than life and in order to get the details correct, I blew up certain portions of the reference photo to help.
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