At this stage in the game I need for the paint to have dried a bit over night. I work wet into wet as I mentioned before, but there are limitations to this. I consider myself to be a fairly fast painter, and trust me this is not always a good thing, as I tend to paint myself into a corner! (That's right, I went there.) But the faster I go the more paint on the canvas and the less I can do once I have drenched every square inch in view. The dryer the better.
I start to look for the darks and lights, not in terms of transparent glazing, but the true darks of the piece. For example:
In the above pic you'll notice how the portion under the neck, and in the one nostril I managed to get to that day are much darker than before. I start to layer on top of these darks and midtones to create the depth I want in the hair.
Hmmmmmm...... not sure I have much more to say about this. I am not a perfect painter, nor am I telling you that you should paint like me. But what I will say is that with each painting I learn, as does everyone, how my process works, and does not work. I make mistakes all the time, but I get what I want in the end.
Late
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