DEVELOPMENT SELF-PORTRAIT

For the self-portrait it will have to clearly relate to the artist Sungsoo Kim. His work expresses emotions through the soft pale colours, giving a beautiful but ambiguous ambience. I have not yet decided what style I am going to do this oil-painting but I am so far experimenting with colours.
What I have learnt so far is that you only need a minor amount of turpentine- too much will make the colours blend together. Oil painting takes time, i needed to take a few brakes in order to let the oil paint settle and then come back to blend in some more colour.
I first drew the self-portrait so I can get the proportions accurate. Once I got that right, i started painting in the dark shadows.

I have taken photos of the process of the painting. This way I can see where I have gone wrong with the texture and mixture of the paint. 

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