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Color Me....?
Greetings, Folks
It took me a long time to complete this assignment: not much actual painting time, but a couple months of working to keep the wolf from the door (or working to qualify for medical insurance, which amounts to the same thing)!
I used the grisaille study as an underpainting, but first "devalued" it to something like Karin's example. I raised the value of the shadows and lowered the values of the brighter areas, so that only the mid tones were represented. Compared to my previous experience, I found that it's a lot easier to paint out to the extreme values from the mid range than vice-versa, especially when the color variable is introduced. Thanks, Karin, that's another trick I've picked up from you!
As I previously noted, I had two reproductions in a book from which to paint . The one on the cover had better detail, but the color seemed way too yellow, giving it a very "antique" appearance. The one in the interior seemed more lifelike in color, but was somewhat less saturated than the cover. Since I've never seen the original, I decided to split the difference and make the chroma somewhere between the two examples. Anyway, here's the result:
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