Oil Painting: An Experiment with Light
My current oil portrait project is progressing nicely. I began with a projector generated sketch, and then used Shiva Oil Painstiks. Yesterday, I walked into my art room and noticed that the sunlight cast over the canvas created an interesting photo shoot opportunity.
I adjusted the manual lighting option on my Canon XTI Rebel and took several photos with various levels of light exposure. I was amazed at the way the overexposure helped me to see what I needed to work on improving.
With the overexposure, I could isolate the eyes and nose to see how my painting compared to the original photograph. I'm trying to analyze shapes and shades as opposed to my preconceived idea of an eye or nose.
As I adjusted the amount of exposure using the "M," manual setting, the painting came into focus.
Today, I continued painting on this portrait. Here is the where I left off. I'll continue posting the painting in progress.
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