Tonight’s little acrylic (5×7″) done while watching/listening to Luther

I would do more but bed awaits..and i forgot to fix the charcoal sketch (done on the acrylic gloss medium as i have taken to doing) on illutration board..as a result, the charcoal smeared around and began to make the colors rather depressing so i had to spend too much time ‘lifting’ the smudged color out to bring it back to some life. ah well..tomorrow another one….just noticed..photo has a bit of glare syndrom on the upper left…

And, now, the 4th self portrait experiment momento…

Not really an experiment, this time, as i am using a medium with which i am familiar–oil– although it is, once again, 9×12″on illustration board prepared with acrylic gloss medium and a vine charcoal sketch start which is not my usual sub-surface. As before, it is a lot of fun to just hurl these out every day but probably taking a break on selfies and going on to stull life for a while…cheerio!

Another experimental self portrait and momento…number 3

This one, once again is on illstration board with undercoat of gloss acrylic medium and a charcoal sketch which has been set with Kaymar temp spray fixative..With this one, however, i used Goldin’s Fluid acrylics which turn out to be more like ink in their transparency. I feel comfortable with being able to have more passages which are transparent which (when painted over a white background) give a more luminous color..i can always go back in with opaques if i want but it is hard to retrieve that kind of luminous quality..although gessoing over and, then, painting over the white underground can bring it back..but….totally opaque always feels ‘heavy’ to me–probably because i started as a pen and ink and watercolorist. These selfies are all 9″ x 12″.