Work in Progress: Peaches, Update 9

Work in Progress: Peaches, Update 9

            Nearly finished with Peaches, herself. I will need to do more blending of the colors, more work on further defining the fur, further work on highlights and details., but it seems to be coming together. I’ve been working over the fur with CO dark ochre, ivory and golden ochre light, and PP brown ochre and burnt umber. The darkest shadows were taken care of with PP burnt umber, but it was used sparingly. Much of the fur work was accomplished with PP brown ochre and CO ivory, first working in lighter shadows and indications of hair with the brown ochre, then softening it with ivory and stroking in some hairs with the ivory also. CO dark ochre was used to darken the brown ochre, again blending it in and also stroking in suggestions of hair. I continually sharpened the points with a razor blade, and that enabled me to draw in lines.

            More of the background was added in also, giving more of a feeling that Peaches was someplace, not just a vignette. I blocked in more of the entertainment center using Holbein burnt umber 1 and raw sienna 1, along with PP burnt umber and dark sepia, to get the real dark darks. Some PP 184, dark naples ochre was used to start some highlights on the entertainment center.

            A little bit of the rug has been indicated as well. For that I used PP 174 chrome green opaque and 193 burnt carmine.

           

            I find the Carb Othello pencils to be a little bit softer than the Pitt Pastels and, I think, because of that, maybe a little easier to draw in lines indicating hair.