Wrinkles in the dress

Today I started with coloring the dress using Rembrandt's Ultramarine Blue. A very powerfull but nicely transparant blue. I use a very thin glace with a lot of pigment in there. This shows almost no color on the dark stripes but shows well on the white stripes. Next layer the color will show in full on the darks as well. The white stripes will be uplighted with Titan White using the blue for shadows in the wrinkles. The wrinkels in the dark strips will be highlighted as well.

The detail picture will show more detail on the wrinkles:

Stumbling on...

I know I did it myself.... painting so many bricks and floor elements. It is a hard job to paint everything in one color with different tones. Trying to make 1 whole of the painting. Some of the yellowish (Still the grain) is cooled with violet (sand and floor tiles) and highlights are worked out with warmed titan white. The talon (broken stone) is painted with 1 layer of warmed still de grain. This in order to relfect the sand stone of the orignal.

What a difference a daylight lamp makes.....

This week I decided that I have been brave and surprised myself with a daylight easellamp. What a difference that makes painting durin day and night! Compleet new colors on your painting.....

Today I have spot glazed the wall with oxide red transparent and worked out all highlights with titan white warmed with still the grain yellow. I am quit happy with the result. The next layer, a very thin glaze of probaly transparant white and/or ultramarin blue will cool down the colors and bring these more together. Not so happy with the balloon, need to cool down this color as well. But will keep that to the end.

The Wall, first layer..

Today I've finished the first layer on the wall. This layer is the color Still de Grain with highlights in Titan White. It still looks like what it is: a colored underpainting. Although some of the bricks in the wall already start looking like a brick I seriously hope that the next layer will bring me more to reality...

Entering the next stage

For those who asked what is the story behind the painting.....

When your history is one with all what used to be nice is broken

Someday somewhere even you will see a spark of love
Put on your nicest dress and start heading for the exit
Run for the light and leave the all the broken parts behind
If there is no exit you could decide to create one yourself
You could draw a new sparkling world, full of love

Entering the next stage, finished almost with the underpainting (corrected some perspective errors and added some more stone.... have to do some shading), I started with coloring the sky. This shows immediate the effect that I want to achieve, a real breaktrough.

The glazing of the wall is started. I use for the first layer(s) Rembrandt Oils. color Still de Grain. The medium used is Scheveningen Oil Medium. The color still the grain is a slightly darkish kind of yellow, highly transparent but with a lot of pigment. The color layer is applied as a very thin film, most of the details of the underpainting will be seen through the film. The highlights of the underpainting are worked out with Titan White while the glace is still wet.

Lots of progress on the floor...

Today a good day after a week full of illness (flu). I decide to have a new session on the painting and painted the floor and some scenary like the broken timpaal with the picture of some Greece godness.
Next time I'll start to correct some errors in the wall and will make a decision if and if yes what I will place in the arch.

Tiles and stones...

Finally decided what to use as underground. Just following now the original and make a broken tile floor, partially covered with sand and small rocks..... Also decided that the timbal should look like marmer from the beginning and started to repaint the structure.