Toni

[Claudemir Bonfim]

A good way is this one http://forum.portraitartist.com/forumdisplay.php?f=68

[Marina Dieul]

Garth,
I echo everyone to tell you that it's simply elegant. ( and I loved the close up)

[Garth Herrick]

Hi Marina,

Thanks. Saying "elegant" means a lot to me!

Garth

[Tom Edgerton]

Garth--

Really fine....simple, direct, great character.

I appreciate the progress views too: it's always nice to get a look at the process.

--Tom

[Garth Herrick]

Originally Posted by Tom Edgerton

Garth--

Really fine....simple, direct, great character.

I appreciate the progress views too: it's always nice to get a look at the process.

--Tom

Thanks so much Tom.

Well it's really only one progress view paired with the finish. This time I borrowed new member Richard Murdock's approach of drawing a grid on the canvas and generally locating points within that broad grid. The progress shot above shows the moment I managed to bury that grid from visibility; something I did as quickly as possible! That state above was perhaps a couple days into this portrait, and everything was essentially there, at least as a value hierarchy. Sometimes it's refreshing to try a different and simple approach.

Edit: It was not too intensive a grid: I think I spaced the squares about every three inches, which felt comfortably free but accurate enough, and very efficient for a quick mapping.

Garth

[Jane Bradley]

OK Garth,
I let the dinner burn just now looking at your painting!! I am in awe again - and will love to study this one.

Jane

[Chris Saper]

Grids have been used for hundreds of years. By great painters.

Leon Loard Portraits has an entire product line of paintings that are basically colored over photo images. I can promise you that if my dear sweet husband was faced with a photo-ed canvas he would screw it up in 2 minutes, and not have a clue where to go..;No matter how a painter starts, if there is no drawing skill, it can't be rescued.

That is one of the reasons it is so essential to practice regularly from life.

[Garth Herrick]

Originally Posted by Jane Bradley

OK Garth,
I let the dinner burn just now looking at your painting!! I am in awe again - and will love to study this one.

Jane

Jane, my friend, from you, I am quite complimented. Thanks, and I hope your dinner worked out!

Garth