I know what media I want to use- pen and ink and oil paint. I've gone to Michael's and stocked up on a palette of oil paints roughly based off of Mrs. Mosley's introduction from class. Unfortunately, no store in a 20 mile radius has Gamsol, so I bought a bottle of Liquin. After some research, I found that it's pretty toxic, but! apparently it allows brushstrokes to pretty much disappear, which I'm always a fan of. Love smoothness and well-blended paint. Pen and ink has always been my favorite medium, so now's a good chance to do something a bit more ambitious maybe. One of my head pieces was based on identity and how I perceive myself, and I want to expand on that idea. I want to do a self-portrait, and create an overlay with eyeglasses. I don't know why, but I have a bin of eyeglasses in my house. The overlay would warp the underlying self-portrait and communicate a message about an issue I deal with- a distorted self-image.
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I toned my canvas a red-orange because of the blue of the duck and I really like how it's visible where the grisaille is more translucent and where I've left the orange around the edges. I didn't like the brunaille because of how hard it was to work with. It was very thin and rough, so I don't know how much more helpful it was than the sketch. I like the grisaille a lot more because of how much more precise I can be in details and in values. Overall, I really like how smooth oil paint can be because it's blendable for so long compared to acrylic, and I took home my supplies to try and finish the grisaille so at least I'd have a black and white painting.
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