The trick is to setup 3 brushes and 3 wells of color. 1. The light color/well is used to paint in a silhouette for the whole figure in one go. 2. Medium is thicker paint that you then paint into the wet light color 3. Dark is then used for accents and blended with #2.
Hatching is where you do tons of tiny lines of pastel, and it takes hours to do a portrait. I like it but honestly for skin it's a lot faster and better to just put down a base of a few colors, blend it into the sand paper, and then paint details and rendering on top of that.
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These paintings all use hatching and not much blending. The advantage is much more control and lots of interesting texture and colors. The disadvantage is it takes forever and honestly flesh just doesn't look like that, especially for women. Women like faces smoooooooth.pic.twitter.com/P9yLuoBudo
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Tomorrow I'm going to central park to do a plein air oil painting and film an episode of my Pigmented Lullabies show. I'll update this thread when I'm done.
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On my last day in NYC I went to Central Park to paint outside. It was FREEEEZZING cold, so the paint wasn't very helpful, but I managed to do this much. I may work on it some more at home and refine it better.pic.twitter.com/58BLq4ae0d
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