Painting a portrait with imprimatura and ala prima

More "How to" Articles and Tutorials

• Demonstration Drawing the Sphere
• Demonstration Drawing the Cube
• Demonstration Video: How to Paint the Shapes Monochromatically 

The Human Figure

• Demonstration: Drawing the Skeleton Front View preparation for Life Drawing 

How to draw a portrait

• Demonstration Video: How to draw the head in pencil
•  Demonstration Video: Sketching the Head and Face in wash media
• Demonstration Single Portrait (Joy Anne Delight))
• Demo Portraits (Two Figures)
• Demonstration: How I make a painting (In Martini Vertas)
• Demonstration: How I make a painting (Hat in Hand) 
• Demonstration: How I revise and work out problems in my paintings.
• Demonstration: How I make a painting "Buoy"

Completed 24"x18" Noir Syle Painting

Here's the completed painting.
Here are the steps that I took to coplete the lower right hand figure.


See a larger finished version of this painting on my website at:
http://www.kenney-mencher.com/

Alex and Svetlana Tango Painting Commission

This is a portrait commission of two tango dancers Alex and Svetlana. I worked from photos that I took of the two of them. From the photoshoot they chose about 20 images that they thought would be good. The first image is the completed portrait which is 20"x20" on linen.


Here's the underpainting which was done in an imprimatura layer.
I work from background to foreground so I started by toning up the background.

Next I worked on the face.










    
 More Tango paintings on my site.  Visit this link and  scroll down the page.

http://www.kenney-mencher.com/catalog/characters.htm

Painting of Beth. Oil on linen, 20"x20" using the imprimatura method.