The Robe Series - Painting 3

The Robe Series - Painting 3
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Third portrait in the silk kimono. This one was painted for my friend Matt, special for his birthday. The picture is from my iPhone because wouldn't you know it, I forgot to take a picture before giving it to him.

The Robe Series - Second Painting

Second Robe Painting
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This is the second in the series based on a kimono style robe I picked up in Memphis.

Reference Picture

The sketch

A close up

The Robe Series Part III

Finished Robe painting
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The first in this series is finished as of Feb 15th! I'm a bit late actually updating this blog. Whoops.

Still in progress

The Robe Series Part II

Here are some new pictures showing the progress of my first robe painting. 

First part of head

Beginning of hair added

Hair added

Close up with hair and earrings added

Necklace and tattoo added

First layer of robe

Robe added

The set up

The Robe Series Part 1

I'm trying something new this time. I moved my easel into the front room; I get such great light in there. I bought a kimono style robe in Memphis years ago and and finally getting around to painting it. I bought the darn thing thinking I would paint a series using it, and finally I am.  This is the first in the series - I think there will probably be 5 or so more. I didn't mean for these to be self-portraits, but then I *needed* to paint something. I needed to paint these now, rather than wait until I could get someone else to pose, so here I am.  

I am also trying to blog the progress of the painting rather than one big post at the end.  We'll see how it goes.

The set up in the front room

The sketch

The background is on

The background

Close up