Pencil grid and sketch on stretched canvas - 16x20. I'm such a slave to my grids, I 'm ashamed to say. I may one day choose not to use them and let what may happen happen.
I have placed the paper here for a visual. I was happy with the placement, so I glued them done.
Here the paper is glued down with a coat of clear primer applied in case some of the paper isn't acid free.
First run through with the oil paint to unit the collage pieces.
After working the painting for a bit I felt the eyes were bigger than I wanted them. The eyes are significantly smaller on the finished version than they are here.
16 x 20 collage and oil on stretched canvasThe first version (6x8 study) of this painting was done over an older landscape painting which had some pink in it. That's where the pink hair came from. The brown skin tone came from a brown piece of paper. The blue shirt came from an old pastel drawing that I used for collage pieces. The reference photo was a mug shot from the turn of the century, the crime unpublished.
