In progress

Here’s what I’m work­ing on now. “White shirt,” oil on panel, 20 × 16”.

I messed up the right sleeve. As was painfully obvi­ous the next day, but some­how didn’t hit me at the time, the shadow color in the right sleeve is too green and too low in chroma. (This may not be clear in the photo you are look­ing at, as these are fairly sub­tle color dis­tinc­tions.) Shad­ows else­where are in the orange and yel­low range, assisted by the earth red tone I had applied on top of the glue-chalk gesso primer. My plan is to let let that sec­tion dry com­pletely while I work on the rest, glaze the shad­ows with trans­par­ent yel­low oxide and trans­par­ent red oxide, and work into that base in order to cor­rect the color.

Other than that, I like it so far, which is rare for me at this point in a paint­ing. It still needs a bunch of fab­ric detail and the hangar needs to be painted in, but it’s basi­cally pro­gress­ing well.