This is the final painting. Since the last entry I let the whole painting dry thoroughly. Then I went over it with a very thin wash of white and cobalt blue. This has the effect of unifying the painting and bringing out some nice optical greys. Then I worked more neutrals, darks and color into places where they were needed. I also put in some more details and corrected the drawing in a few areas. Finally I put in the faint background where the white canvas had been.

As you can see since the last post, I've worked mostly on Nathan and a few other places. This was done mostly with neutrals and some local color.

More adding of neutrals and adjusting the values, i.e. the lights and darks.

Just neutrals have been added. The drawing is starting to be a little more definite.

Now I've started to add the neutrals and to define Nathans portrait a little better. The form is carried by these neutrals.

More color has been added and I'm aiming at balancing the warms and cools before I start to put the neutrals in.

The colors are getting more vivid as I keep adding to what is already there trying to build up the paint surface. This is somewhat slow as the colors take a while to dry and I like working on dried or almost dry paint.