Done At Last.

I’ve finished my painting of two siblings on the beach at night watching the bioluminescence. It’s been a long haul. I don’t often work from photographs and I don’t find it easy, I prefer to work from life, but this was a good exercise. I did a lot of the painting upside down – the canvas and the photo not me 😀

Here are the stages I went through, starting out by recycling an old canvas with a couple of rough layers of acrylic gesso, to get a textured surface. I covered it with an opaque Cadmium Orange ground and then blocked in some areas with Mars Black, before working on the details, upside down. I used Liquitex Heavy Body acrylics.