This is one of my paintings from university. It was set up like a critique was taking place in the painting with three of my friends sitting and one standing. I used a photo for reference, for proportion only and had my friends sit in as models as I painted. I map out my paintings the same way each time by using either burnt umber or raw senna. these colours are perfect for me when i'm mapping out tones.
The hardest thing about figure painting is getting the flesh tones right. your painting could look fantastically painted but if your colours are off, the painting looks weird and in my university the professors aren't afraid to tell you to start over(even if the project is due in 2 days). When it comes to painting flesh tones, the one colour that I never use is FLESH TINT, it is possibly the worst colour ever. all it is is an off tint of pink that can easily be made when your mixing your colours. There is no need to buy it. The only time when I buy a colour that I can easily mix myself is if I need a lot of it, other than that I mix all my colours.
When it comes to my colour palette, I use a double primary palette when I paint. A palette with double primary colours can make practically every colour you could ever need.
There is a lot of colour going on in the legs of this painting, which is really good. Skin isn't just one colour, its many colours layered on top of each other to create rich ochres and pinks and greens and blues, yes those colours are in skin too.
I painted over the rip in the jeans, it just didn't look right and for some reason I was having the worst time painting that part of the leg.
See? much better. And I almost forgot Kassy's tattoo haha. I really liked working on this painting even though the class was a complete bust. It was awesome having a work environment with close friends.
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