It took me the better half of Sunday and I ignored my partner's birthday during that hefty half, but I got down the first layer of paint for those six small works. As you can see from the picture below, it's a simple dark neutral that's meant to help me jump from thinking about these pieces as drawings to thinking about them as paintings. I use a very loose paint, similar to the consistency of watercolor because I intend to add the different layers of paint like glazes. I don't want this base color to act too strongly.
By the week's end I am hoping to have the second layer of paint down on all six. Three tonight and three on Wednesday night. The next layer will be a medium valued color, another neutral brown with a tinge of yellow coming through. I won't touch the backgrounds with this next layer because I want the background to be a bright white, helping emphasize the age of the photographs with their yellow and sepia tints. As a point of reference, I'm also including copies of the original photographs from which I'm working. Having used a scanner, you miss out on their three-dimensional qualities which I'm attempting to include in the paintings. But hopefully through those six paintings, you'll get the point.
As for those four other paintings sitting on the sideline. Well, they're still there. I about to paint the white border with the tabbed bottom. But I just want another couple of days to think about if they're done yet or not. I think my due date to paint the edges, finished or not, will be by this weekend.
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