Step 27: Paint Mouth Details |
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Particularize
(Steps 22 through 29)
Now the time has come to turn a painting into a portrait. Up
until now you have been striving to state the broad generalities
of the subject — the "big truths." Now you will
concentrate on small specifics — the details of the eyes
nose and mouth. We call this final step "particularizing." |
Hover to zoom final painting |
| Place a crisp dark at the point where the lips
meet, and in each corner of the mouth. Render the light-struck
plane of the lower lip, taking care to soften the edge between
the pigmented (warm, reddish) lip and the lower portion of the
face. Add some detail to the moustache, but avoid fussy detail.
Continually look back and forth between the sitter and the painting.
Does my painting convey the expression of the sitter? Do I have
the sitter's 'look'? Do the features flow naturally into the
contours of the face (rather than looking 'pasted on'? |
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