Christ in Window

I started on a Masonite Board that I bought at Home Depot and sawed up.

I took all the smaller boards and coated them with Gesso mixed with black acrylic paint. It makes a nice smooth surface that I usually use to paint portraits.

I drew this painting on with a brush and burnt umber oil paint mixed with paint thinner. The background is Cerulean blue.

This time I thinned the paint with a just bit of medium to make it flow. Still working on the underpainting...

I glazed burnt sienna over the figure to warm it up, then added a touch of dark blue to the deep shadows.

Added some shocking highlights and then toned them down by adding some of the medium tones on the skin. Looking at this picture, I think I need to go back and blend it all a bit before it dries!

I worked on this when it was dark outside, under my natural light flourescent light, which is way too bright. So, I painted over the face and made it too dark in regular light. Sigh....

Then, in the morning I dreamed up this brainstorm that I should change the picture from the one I am copying, so I added more sky to make it an outdoor setting. Now the figure is definitely too dark!!!!

This may be a struggle to make this painting work!

Christ Teaching near Trees

It's good to paint landscapes from back to front, so I scribbled on some varieties of green. I think I may define some of the leaves a bit later. As you can see, I wiped my brush on some of the other parts to bring the same colors into the rest of the painting. Not sure I like the new colors better!

I glazed  blue over the green to tone it down, however, in this photo it looks brighter. First I tried alizarin crimson to tone it down, but that actually made it brassier - odd since it is the opposite color.

Added some browns. Crowds are hard to do!

Christ Teaching

I had a lot of Payne's Gray that need using, so I put in the darkest darks, though they aren't too clear in this picture.

Added different color for clothes. I like it with color!

Christ and the Fishes

I thought the water should be more colorful.

Ditto!

I bought this tube of Gamblin Radiant Blue oil paint and had to try it everywhere. I added it to the shoulder and a few fishes.

Added some skin and darks.

Lengthened Christ's arm and darkened around the fishes.

Christ Healing Hand

I glazed the background with Alizarin Crimson and a cool brown blend, then added white to that for the skin. I think the hand is way too large for it's owner!

Worked on this last week, so can't remember much about how I did this update.

This pic is dark! I glazed all over with different colors.

Lightened the faces and hat.

Christ Calming the Sea

I felt the water was too unreal, so added colors and dimension. In the end, it is supposed to look like a storm. The paint brands I've been  using are Classico, Gamblin and some Winton.

Christ in the Temple

I added a blend of orange and purple to his robe and stuck that in a few other places. Dabbed light cerulean blue some places too to imply the details.

I wanted to pull Christ out from the background, so I glazed the background with purple/blue. It still looks the same. I also added to brown detail to Christ, and a few yellow highlights to offset the puple/blue glazed background. I will probably have to reglaze when I get all the background detail entered, but I couldn't resist trying it now. How can I lift Christ out of the background? Value? Color?

This photo is lousy. I added lots of dark, which you can see on the left side. There is a lot of little detail to add to this picture! I really kind of clean off my palette on this picture because there are little bits of every color in it.