The image above is the under drawing for a portrait of Ken Wilber that
I am painting on a linen panel. The color is two layers of a pyrrol red oil mixture,
(PR 254, PO 73, PR 102, PW 1), the paint was mixed 1:1 with a chalk medium and
a few drops of an egg white glair/oil medium were added to increase the flow and
decrease the viscosity of the paint. The linen was rubbed with the chalk medium
(thinly it is 98% transparent) and the glazes were applied.
I am going to try to leave as much of this rich color as I can when I am finished
but I estimate that this piece will at least take 12 layers of paint, a great deal of
swirling blues will be applied to look as if radiating from within the glasses, as well as
plenty of textures which you can only plan so much. This is a small piece at only 8x10in,
will be painted with hand ground egg tempera and oil paints.
I may begin a series of portraits of my favourite philosophers and geniuses in
this small scale, perhaps Friedrich Nietzsche, Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Nicola Tesla, Soren
Kierkegaard, Socrates and a few others.
