Patron Perks: Early Access to Our Painting in Progress

One of my goals for March was to incorporate more painting into my life. Ok. Truthfully, this has been a goal for some time but my writing with Vella has taken a lot of my time. At least that has been my excuse.

Part of my focus for creating different tiers for my patrons was to find a better balance between my art and writing. And if you scroll through all of them you will see they encompass both. The Canvas Fund incorporates full videos of me painting with almost no edits. I say almost merely because watching me paint in real time is a tad boring so I sped them up a smidge to compensate for when I'm loading my brush with paint. I also cropped what the camera captured to make it easier to see what it is I'm painting.

That being said, I have already posted a small video showing the acrylic underpainting. This video shows the next "ugly" stage as I lay in the first layer in oils.

This is a cute little horror collectible I stumbled upon in Adobe stock and when I saw her, I knew I needed to paint her.

The first layer in acrylics is basically to lock in the shape and also the pencil sketch. This way the graphite will not smear with the oils as it already has in the first layer.

What I am creating here is the dead layer, or grisaille. I am using two colors - titanium white and ivory black. I take equal parts of each and create a perfect mid-tone grey. Then it's just a matter of manipulating all three for the proper values. I may eventually lay in colors for this but for now my intent is to bring this painting to a perfect gray scale.

Enjoy! I will post more work in progress videos as I continue to work on this little painting.

Size: 6x6 inches

Gallery wrapped canvas.