Portrait

[John Ballard]

This one is now finished. My first acrylic only attempt at flesh painting. The hair was glazed with inks and oils. Needs a decent base one day too.
John

 

[Andre]

Fantastic!!!! Beautiful job on the sculpting, the flesh tones are very fitting with the age of the subject as well.
The base is fine

Slainte,

Andy

 

[davidmitchell]

Lovely work John on both the sculpting and painting.


Cheers David

 

[megroot]

Looks really good all around.
Marc

 

[Wings5797]

Nice work John.
Keith

 

[Colin_Fraser]

I like that. What sort of acrylics did you use John?

 

[arj]

A superb sculpt and excellent painting.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[Huw63]

Excellent - has all the colour of a child's face.

Cheers

Huw

 

[John Bowery]

Very nice all around.
Cheers
John

 

[Joe55]

A lovely piece in every aspect !

Joe

 

[John Ballard]

Gentlemen you are too kind. I really appreciate the encouragement.
Colin this is done with Jo Sonja acrylics
John

 

[Nap]

John,

Looks great the tones look really nice ...what JS mixes ?

Like the way the hair has turned out as well

Thanks for sharing

Nap

 

[Viking Bob]

I think every one has said what I am thinking, great sculpt and flesh tones.

 

[tiberius57]

Lovely subject! Painting is exceptional and makes it lovely to watch! It put a smile on my face! Thanks!
Great, great work, John!
Cheers,
Zeno

 

[John Ballard]

Thanks again to everyone.
Nap as far as my flesh palette is concerned I use the following Jo Sonja colours

Alizarin crimson, burnt sienna, cadmium scarlet, red earth, unbleached titanium, ultramarine blue, yellow oxide and burnt umber

I usually make up a basic flesh tone with burnt sienna, yellow oxide and unbleached titanium. ( this last colour is a warm white which I prefer to a pure titanium white). I then adjust this base colour with a little alizarin and or cadmium scarlet if I want a more pinky tone. As a general rule I try to follow the scheme of keeping the lower face in cooler tones, the middle area more pinkish and the forehead slightly more yellowish. Having said that there are cool blue hints around the eyes and the temples. I try to avoid pure white except perhaps for the smallest hint in the highlight where the eye socket meets the edge of the nose. In this particular project my first efforts ended up a little too pale so I found that a very thin wash of red earth over the whole face warmed up the tones very nicely. I also find that using alizarin crimson and cadmium scarlet in mixes and applied in a pointillist style create interesting variances in the warmest pink tones on the cheeks and around the base of the nose.

John