Monday, February 17, 2014

Monday, February 10, 2014

A Special Night

Andrew commissioned this painting for his wife. I painted from his photo of them at the Empire State Building.




















14" x 11" Oil on Linen
NFS

Here is the sketch:















I set out a full palette for this painting:















And started with an transparent iron oxide underpainting that I like to have show through near the edges. It also avoids any glaring white showing through from the canvas.