I started toning the canvas. I used Burnt senna with a little aqua blue paint giving it a brownish- green base to the canvas. Than I began to sketch out the woman's figuare. Starting with the dark spots first. I did not paint the eyeballs in but I drew the areas where the eyes will take place. Like mapping out my painting. I painted her hair but not perfectly, this is just a sketch the details come later. I used all the same paint for this sketch but on her hair i made darker shades, so that you can see the difference between her hair and the shadown on her face.
Next, I painted her eye pupils, again i am not going to put the details in yet. I then worked on the shadows on her lips. Softening the lines so they are not standing out too much. I paint the darker spots and take a clean paint brush and spread it around. I also work on the wrinkles in her clothes. Plus I added the flower in her hair. I heard once that when in Hawaii single women wear flowers in ther hair on one side to inform others they are not taken.
Transparent paint alot of mineral spirits. I used cadmin red and little orange for her face. The whole thing gets a coat. Her shirt and vest, I took burnt senna and dark blue paint and used my brush to show ridges then I took my rag and pulled some of it off swiping it. I took dark red and blue paint to make a purple blouse. Now, to the hair I painted the darker shades and lighter shades with her flesh tone. Which was Orange, serilain blue, white and cadian red. Blocking in I used white to dull it down, but i keep the color. Lips make part of the face. The darkiest color is crimson and cadmian red, blue and yellow oker.
I wanted to have a garland on her head so I started with an abstract sketch of the flowers in a mixture of white, blue, and orange paint. Then I needed to paint the center of the flowers with yellow orchard and purple. To make the leaves I mixed yellow, blue and yellow orchard. Then I painted in more wrinkles on my clothing with dark purple and dark yellow. Next I fixed my hair so that it looks more realistic being tucked underneath my garland. Then I painted in my background using a prop my landscape painting that i did onsite at Tulsa Community College. Her eyes I used a pointed brush, green, light blue, and orange and a little bit of mineral spirits. I drew the eye brows and part of the pupil. Only the top eye lid. and a little on the eyebrows yellow oker, cerian blue for her pupils.
