New technique for Mara’s portrait
In the last years I’ve had the occasion to work a lot on faces and portraits. I have always enjoyed making portraits, but lately I have discovered that it’s one of the things I like to do best ! I am very lucky because more and more persons are asking me to paint their portrait. On one hand this is slowing me down in my own projects, on the other hand it makes me really happy. Of course having just had a baby I don’t work so fast, but this is not a problem since I work with oils, and with this technique it is ok to give some time to the colors to dry before I apply another layer.
Speaking about layers and technique, I have developed my own way to paint what we in italian call “incarnato” (the skin colour) with different layers (if I find the time, I will document this in a future post for the last painting I made for Bodil & Rune, coming soon on the website), but this time as I mentionned before I will try a new technique for the painting I’m beginning now, Mara’s portrait commissionned by Fabrizio, where I will use both oil paints and white egg tempera. For now I’m only at the sketch !