I missed posting this yesterday, so here is this week's work on the icon of Mary. The underpainting continues. This represents a dozen layers of very thin acrylic paint, starting with dark olive green, and working our way along the colour wheel sixty degrees into the ochre reds. Every layer is slighly lighter than the one beneath.
As I add layers, Our Lady's features start swimming around her face like they were made of melting butter. It's a slow, inexorable transformation that requires a lot of measurement and correction, mostly on account of my neophyte painting technique. The portrait is coming along, but I will need to spend the week re-measuring my paintwork.
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