Step 21: Restate the Lights |
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Restate
(Steps 18 through 21)
Now you begin the serious work of restating everything you have
done. You have just come from a rest period, so stand back and
study your painting with a fresh eye. Then proceed to retrace
your steps, going back over everything — in the same order
of the original painting — and restating. Start with the
darks. Restate the darks, making your judgements sharper and
more accurate. Then restate the halftones: some darker, some
lighter, some perhaps more intense, some less so, etc. All along
the way refine and correct the drawing. |
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| Here the lights are confined mostly to the forehead
and the area of the left cheek in the central third of the face.
The transition between the tones is softened, which increases
the realism. Remember that in this kind of painting every brushstroke
is a drawing stroke. As you carry out these restating steps — while it is true that we are concentrating on tonal and color
matters — you are also correcting and adjusting the drawing
with every stroke. |
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