Portraiture Painting PTTX

Chuck Close

I like this painting because its not like your normal painting it seems distorted up close, and you wouldn't know it was a portrait until you stepped back a bit and took it all in. It's amazing how good this art is and I really really like it.

Peter stitchbury.

Peter stitchburys paintings are really unique and are almost like caricatures. I like how even those features and sharped and exaggerated the painting still looks really polished and realist, they are still recognisable as the reference. 

THE PROCESS.

The process to creating a portrait is very long winded. First of all we made our canvases. This involved creating a frame using the equipment in the wood work room. Then we stretched our canvas over the frame using brute strength and a staple gun. We primed and prepped our canvases so that they were ready for paint. We got our photos taken by caroline and we cut and cropped them using photoshop and printed them out. We started off just by mixing skin tones and getting accustomed to the oils. I really can't decide whether or not I like paint with oils or not. Then we started underpainting after drawing and scaling up our canvases. 

MY EXPERIENCE.

I didn't really enjoy oil painting, it takes so long and I get impatient easily. My portrait of Kayla could have been alot better but I'm happy with the result for a first time painting with oils. I wouldn't paint the background in oil paint next time that added days onto the time this painting took. Beside all of that Kayla is happy with the result and I think I did well for a first try and portraiture and oil painting. The most important thing about painting with oils that I have learnt is not to rush because you cannot speed up the time it takes to dry you just have to work with it.