David Sandlin in His Studio (work in progress, 16)

Step 16

Still green skinned, but David is finally getting some color to his clothes. The light blue pigment I used in the jacket trim is actually quite fluorescent in real life, compared to the photo. Some colors just don't translate into RGB. This blue is composed chiefly of cobalt turquoise with a small amount of viridian, and tinted to make a couple of varying values with titananium white. Its shadows are darkened with barely more than a few grains of Milori blue added to the original color. The darker, cooler blue for the rest of the jacket is ultramarine blue, pushed slightly more violet with the addition of ultramarine pink and lightened with titanium. I left the reddish underpainting to predominate in the shadows. His t-shirt is modeled with a fairly intense chartreuse color (chromium oxide green + yellow ochre light) in the shadows, followed by a pale pink (vermilion + white), with highlighting strokes of a very pale cadmium yellow on top. All these areas still require more work to soften the contrasts. After I resolve the torso, I'll post a detail that should show off the colors better. I've just begun bulking up the legs, using hatch work and washes of terra nera Romana mixed with zinc white. Both the black earth and zinc are fairly transparent. When I start painting the lighter tones in the pants, I'll switch over to Mars black and titanium for cooler grays over these warm blacks.