This princess is very, very close to being done, there is just one area by her feet that still needs to be "embroidered." I'm not sure if I will do any more of these (maybe small ones, since I have fabric for more characters), but I felt the need to finish this one just because I had started it.
Similarly, I also felt that I desperately needed to spend just a little bit of time on the large painting I started a couple of weeks in because I really want to finish it, and I felt bad about neglecting it for a month.
I did two more dye paintings in the new style of last week's, painting them vertically with drips and using bleach spray. This first one is a combination of homemade parsley alcohol dye and synthetic dyes; the second is all synthetic. One thing I did differently for the second one was to paint the details of her face before filling in her skin colour, which definitely helped preserve the detail a little bit better. I tried to vary the colour palette a bit more. The blue spot that was visible only during the process of the painting from last week definitely influenced my decision to add a lot of blue to both of these. I like the earthier tones I've been using for these over the bright primaries of the first few dye paintings.
I also started a new oil painting. This is the first man I've painted or drawn all semester. My plan for this painting is to tell the story of the colour gamboge. Gamboge is a resin from a few species of Garcinia trees that grow in the Cambodia-Thailand-Vietnam area, and is named, in French, after Cambodia. It's kind of amazing because when it's used as a refined pigment, it's an extremely bright yellow, but the resin itself is a very dark mustardy brown. More about the story itself in my inspiration post, but basically, I have ordered some gamboge (it just got here today!) and will incorporate it into this painting.
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