Paintings by Pam Dallaire

The Copy a Master Challenge:

As part of our local art club's challenge for Oct/08, I am doing my best to copy a Master Painter.  I am doing a portrait, something I need a lot of practice with. I have to do it in a different style than I usually work, but it will be an acrylic painting instead of oil.

See the original painting on-line.

Step 1:

Grid for placing the facial features.

Step 2:

Blocking in the background. No....it's not black (although the photo shows that).  It is a combination of blues, dark reds, browns and greens.   It looks like the back of the head has been cut off but it is in shadow and Bouguereau did the under painting the same way.

Step 3:

Doing some under painting on the face.

© Pamela Dallaire 2007, Painting The North, 

no reproduction of images without express permission.

Website problems? Contact Pam