The Thing, The Bottle

'The Thing, the Bottle'

One of my favourite actors Donald Sutherland, playing John Spencer in 2017's ‘The Leisure Seeker’. I tried doing this as a grisaille or greyscale image first before adding colour over the top and then painting from there. An interesting process but probably not one I would favour in the future. Athough it certainly makes you get your values correct first.

Poor Helen Mirren got cropped out of frame as this went on so I could keep the focus on Donald Sutherland’s characterful face.

Timelapse of the painting in Procreate