I have now added a bold background colour (crimson, straight out the tube) which I love! As well as a background I have put more work into the hair adding some shadows on the left hand side as well as altering the ‘flow’ of the hair, and adding colour to the lips. I then moved on and made a start on the shoulder and front of the dress (which needs much more detail). For all of these sections I have used very little white spirit and much thicker, less diluted paint, allowing me to blend colour. This gives a very traditional look to my painting, a look which I have come to love through work by the artist Shawn Barber, despite his subject matter being far from traditional.
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| Oil Painting of Kat Von D by Shawn Barber |
I have discovered that using thicker paint lets me blend colours much more easily, as I work quite quickly often adding bold strokes of colour, which when I am working with acrylics creates and almost abstract style. With oils however it gives me a much more refined and classical look as when I add bold strokes of paint, the layer beneath is still wet so they automatically mix giving a much more subtle blend of colour. The newly finished sections where done in about and hour.
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| Lady Gaga Oil Painting |
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| Lady Gaga Oil Painting |
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| Lady Gaga Oil Painting |
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| Lady Gaga Oil Painting |
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| Lady Gaga Oil Painting |
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