Distance in Portraiture
Posted in Portraiture on August 18th, 2008 by Marc – 4 Comments
At work on a full-length portrait in Palazzo Corsini
I’m currently working on one of the larger portraits I’ve ever painted. I also have very little time to do it as the sitter is about to have a baby. Luckily the room where I’m working is the largest room I’ve ever had to do a portrait commission in, and it is so much easier to paint fast when you have this amount of distance to see the model from.
Here is a quick time lapse film of the first four days. A last minute idea using my cellphone camera, so the quality is not the best. The jumps in progress are because the battery kept dying…
(click to play the film)
