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.