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Thank you very much guys, It's really really encouraging. Marvin, this is another painting done with the Paxton Palette. I think I did the face in two days, with one extra day at the end to for tweaking. Again, thanks.
I have to confess I love having this chapter of my life to share with my dad - he is helpful, challenging, encouraging, and when he tells me how I should do something, well I either advance because he's given me good advice, or I advance because I see my own vision with more conviction and have the desire to explaining the why behind it. May I confess that I thank the stars that I could get into this career while this window of chance to involve my dad was still open.
Chris, I kinda just guessed at how to approach the suit. When at a Peggy B.'s workshop last year I remember her saying it involved an execution of layers , and adding blue layers for a black coat. And then this December I spent a week with Allan Banks in Sarasota, and he mentioned "sneaking up on it" through layers as well. so that's what I did - laying in the overall darktone, then being rather extreme in declaring the highlights, mids, darks and reals darks, then going over that in a glazing sort of way to temper all of it and get the richness without losing the dimension. I have no idea if this is the right way to go about it, but I think that the silk suit really looks like a probably an expensive piece of fabric and construction.
Oh by the way, the yellow scarf in his pocket was actually a yellow leaf folded up.
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