Paint study #3 and the first one I've
done using oil paint in a long awhile. The purpose of this painting,
other than to break out the paints again, was to look at the way J.C.
Leyendecker painted and to try his technique.
J.C. Leyendecker and his brother Frank
Leyendecker were very much celebrities of the illustration era. They
both studied traditionally and attended school in Paris for a year.
They didn't use photo reference at all, instead they would do paint
studies with a model and later paint it into the illustration. J.C.
Was the more famous of the two and was known especially for his
Saturday Evening Post covers and multiple ad campaigns. He is more
than worth a few minutes to do some research.
Anyway, after looking over his pieces
and reading a rather fantastic blog post
(Link)
about his process I (with the help of a second pair of eyes)
summarized how he did it so that I could apply it.
Leyendecker worked shadows in with a
thin turp/ paint mixture (warm shadows) and then worked up the
highlights in layers of paint getting thicker the lighter it got.
Kind of like adding an actual thickness of the paint for dimension.
On the light side of the skin he wasn't afraid to use a lot of cool
colors or bright slick highlights.
Overall in my paint study I didn't keep
it strictly what Leyendecker would have done but I'm pretty happy
with the results.
Stock used-
Link
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