Step 15: Lights in Lower Third
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The Lights
(Steps 14 through 17)
• Perhaps this section should be called "highlights."
The halftones — all of them — are really "lights."
They exist in the light-struck areas of the subject. And we
have rendered them in our painting of the "mosaic of halftones."
Now we are going to turn our a ttention to the most prominent
lights. So maybe "highlights" best expresses this
sequence.
• It is significant that the highlights are painted after
the darks and halftones. The highlights are opaque, impasto
strokes and sit on top of the layers of paint. The highlights
should be painted with very "clean" color. Paint them
boldly, and then leave them alone, if possible. |
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| This area includes the highlights on the lips
and around the mouth — very strategic and important to
the expression of the face and the character of the portrait.
Remember that we are painting as broadly and as simply as possible.
The details of the mouth comes later (Steps 26 and 27). For
now, the light tones merely serve to express the basic forms. |
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