Painting of Ben...

Hi all. A short (long) time ago Karen asked me to paint a picture of Ben. I selected a photo of him at the lake at Wentworth Falls feeding some ducks chips. For a long time the canvas has been green with a couple of charcoal outlines. Well now it is done and I have some photos of the progress as it came together.

This was the first step done well over 18 months ago. As I said, the first thing I did was paint a solid green background and put some basic charcoal lines in to mark where things were going to go.

The next thing was to start to add some more solid colours in blocks, especially the large shadow area from a tree and the water in the top right corner.

Next comes some more detailed colouring. The ducks and "Ben" start to take form. Still just solid colours and little detail but getting closer to the final product.

Finally the extra details are put in. Ben gets a face (not necessarily his), the ducks and the container in Ben's hand get chips, extra shadows are added, the grass gets texture and the water gets some silver highlights


This is my first attempt at doing a person. Not as good as I hoped, but practice makes perfect as they say.....