Wishes portrait in progress 3 - Mood lighting

This is how the portrait looks now. Wishes begins to emerge from the dark grey paper. The values (how light or dark a color is) have to be just right to capture the mood of soft hazy lighting on Wishes. It’s far enough along now that you can get a sense of that mood.

For those who haven’t seen my previous posts in this album, they have lots of information for artists about why the values in this piece are so difficult, and how I’m solving that. 

Values continue to be challenging as I move into the area around Wishes’ eye. That expression in that eye is critical in this particular portrait, because Wishes’ entire heart and soul was about watchfulness. 

🎨 Prismacolor pencil and acrylic wash on “Dark Grey” Canson Mi-Teintes paper, 20 x 26 inches.

Portrait of Wishes

(Goldgrove New Years Wish FDC CAX FCAT SWAE SWM SHDN WAC RATM CGC TKN NW2)

Commissioned by Alicia McCarthy.