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Originally Posted by Michele Rushworth
Don't know if I'll have a chance to show you in a demo but my process was basically this: on day one I did an 8x10" color study. Each of the 9 subsequent days was spent very quickly laying in one section at a time, based on what I had decided in the study. Doing that one-day study saved me tons of time later, since I knew from the start pretty much what I was going for.
The shirt took a day, the pants, half a day, the shoes, two hours. ( I wrote this all down so I'd see if I was tracking to be finished on time, and -- heaven forbid -- if I ever had to do something like this in such a hurry again!)
Most of the painting has only one layer on it. I knew I had one shot to get it the way I wanted since there'd be no time to go over it again. I spent three days on the face and it has two layers on most of it. The motion part of the background has three layers on it. It initially went on too dark and too cool. Everything else (clothes, bat, helmet, etc) have one layer.
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Thanks Michele, this information is very helpful and inspiring. It takes considerable skill, experience, and talent to paint a portrait one section at a time in one shot, and have the cohesive, successful result you've acheived. Congratulations again!
Garth