It's been a while since my last post-- time flies when you're having fun. I thought I'd share a little bit of my working process today. I had an idea to do a close-up portrait of Pete Townshend in black and white with the focal point being his blue eyes. I started with a 24" x 36" canvas with three coats of gesso. I had two reference pictures I was working from (see below). I started by sketching out the features with black acrylic. After filling in the darkest areas with black I mixed up 5 different shades of gray and began building up the values and textures. I continued building up layers of paint and added blue to the eyes. I still have some more work to do on this one, and I'll post the finished piece soon.
