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tomato power! This piece was done for an online show in Baltimore called "Tomato" It is pastel on paper St. Sebastian (full) This is a detail image of a work in progress. This is 11 X17, Oil on primed watercolor paper. The ground was painted yellow orange. St. Sebastian (crop) The color of the sky has changed several times. For this painting I started with a light graphite contour line over a yellow ground.I roughed in the shapes of the shadows in raw sienna and burnt sienna. Next, I applied a thin wash of the local colors. ie. blue sky, peach skin, etc.. Applying the flat " local" colors came after applying "Verdaccio" a greenish layer made of Mars black and yellow ochre referred to as the "Dead layer". I used black sparingly and when I did, it was mixed with another color. I wanted warm shadows so I made my shadow areas orange and red and some areas lavender (this connected the colors of the blue sky and the red orange shadows).
2 of 3 values pushed (Oil on canvas) and highlights wiped away "BISTRE METHOD" 3 of 3 (photographed initial oil painting and digitally painted in Photoshop) You can see that this is just a practice sketch since I had never colored on a computer before and used a mouse to do the coloring.
1 of 3 initial sienna and umber (Oil on canvas) painting done in the "BISTRE METHOD" these are details of a larger image of "Doubting Thomas" St Sebastion oil on paper 16x20 detail ST Sebastion oil on paper High Tenebrism
   
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