I've made some progress on my Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead Xochitl painting. I've mainly worked on her hair, headdress, feathers, and #eyes for #FebruArty. Her feathers and eyes need a bit more work and she'll have more make up; but that's coming...
The original painting is duo oils on cradled wood and measures 16"x20"
Here is where I am on my Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead Xochitl painting. I've been working on her face and neck. She'll have more make up, but I'll add that in towards the end. I think I'll work on her hair next...
The original painting is duo oils on cradled wood and measures 16"x20"
Here is where I am on my 16"x20" duo oils Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead painting. I've loosely underpainted the entire painting and need to begin finessing additional layers. So very many feathers and so much more to come...
Still plugging away at this 16"x20" duo oils Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead painting. I'm just blocking in some basics, much more remains to go for just the underpainting itself, but I hold that some progress is better than no progress at all...
I've concluded that there's no way I'm finishing this painting in time for Dia de los Muertos. I've started to block in the feathers, hair, and neck for this 16"x20" duo oils Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead painting, but this is all just underpainting and I still have her face, headress, and dress to block in before I even begin overpainting. I wish I could finish it in the time allotted, but I know that even if I had my schedule entirely clear, which I do not, I'm just too slow of a painter to manage. Fortunately I do have another one that's on the wall that I'll try to share with you in celebration on that day...
This is my "Xochitl Study" that I did for the Dia de los Muertos/ Day of the Dead Mujeres Valientes Exhibit at the Ontario Museum of History & Art in 2021. It was a year when I didn't feel I'd be able to finish the full sized painting that I started for them so I submitted this colored pencil drawing on toned paper. I bring it up this year because my schedule was too complicated to even ask them to consider me this year for their show, but I'm hoping to complete this year the painting that this drawing was a study for that I started for them so many years ago...
I'll try to post a wip work in progress image of my Xochitl painting in the not too distant future. Please look forward to it.
Wishing you a happy Lunar New Year! Every year for Chinese New Year, I try to present artwork of the year's Zodiac animal, this time,...
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