Painting Faces

As I've mentioned before, I'd like to get better at painting people. These two paintings are part of a series of paintings I'm doing on hot cocoa. My advice: paint something you love (I love drinking hot chocolate).

For the first painting, I did the undertones in flesh colors, then did a wash over most of it, then added in the darks, then did a warmer wash over certain parts (like the cheeks).

For the second painting, I did the undertones in Lamp Black, which I found very limiting. In the future I will paint facial undertones in flesh colors like in the first painting.

Note that for painting people, I am doing a pencil drawing on the paper first - this is different from how I paint other subjects.

Above: Girl Drinking Hot Cocoa, 12x15in
Below: Woman with Hot Cocoa, 12x16in
Both are (c) 2011 by Jessica Sanaie