Portrait Practice 9, 10, 11

It is fun to paint mustaches, so I picked Lieutenant Murray

for my 9th portrait.

And ... I tried an underpainting of mostly Alizarin Crimson. Pretty wild.

Lieutenant Lewis G Murray

Lieutenant George W Ramey

The background for Lieutenant Ramey is composed mostly of Indian Yellow, 

a transparent, very strong synthetic pigment.

Here is a link with some cool info about Indian Yellow.

I love it with the pink shirt.

Lieutenant Mandal A Burcaw

Isn't that such an unusual name? 

The background here has a bit of Indian Yellow, but there is maybe something else mixed in. I really wanted to get the "chin up" pose for Lieutenant Burcaw, but it isn't lifted as much as I wanted. I also did not paint his neck

as long as it looked in his photo.

Thank you for reading! 

This project is interesting enough to be ongoing; 

I have painted 17 portraits from the yearbook, and there

are many more that I could do.

Stay tuned! I painted a nurse's portrait the other day!

It is interesting to do the portraits and not fuss too much

over them. I see so many things that are not quite

right, but "No Fiddling" will be my motto for

the project.

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