Chase & Payton - The Charcoal
 

Thought I would post this as I work on it. It will be a full oil painting at 20x24 inches. I will post it at the completed charcoal stage, the underpainting, and the final if folks are still interested.

A special thanks to Bill Whitaker for very useful advice on mouths in 3/4 profile. :)

http://www.fineportraitsinoil.com/Ch...oalRevised.jpg

And some detail:

http://www.fineportraitsinoil.com/Ch...ailRevised.jpg

Chase

and

http://www.fineportraitsinoil.com/Pe...tailRevise.jpg

Payton

Michael,

Would you be willing to share with us the advices imparted to you by Mr. Whitaker? I'm sure they'd be gratefully accepted by the large Forum audience.

Thanks

Michael,

I don't really recall what series of turns in the Forum maze I took to find this post, but I now see that it came in during a 4-month hiatus I took on another planet, so you've probably already painted this one and cashed the check, which ought to have been large.

These are beautiful subjects and I hope you have a practice of preserving and framing your preliminary charcoals. (How I used to hate the practice of calling those "cartoons".)

Anyway, what a treat to see this (as I type, I'm not aware of having seen the painting, but I'll go into your website anon). The single thing I would have commented on was the slightly skewed-to-our-left attitude of the older girl's nose. It seems to have a compass direction somewhat different from the plane of the face.

I admire your willingness to keep doing the preliminary work. Too many practitioners give that up after the studio instructors aren't around anymore, and then they post in-progress works that need substantial re-design.

Cheers