Oil Painting
Carrie Robles shows how she builds a narrative portrait from the ground up, step-by-step.
My narrative art is often a mix of ideas, references, and invention. With a combination of reference material from photoshoots, sketches, and color studies, I begin the actual painting after Ive worked out my composition. My creative process also varies greatly depending on the complexity of the image and my confidence level. In order to break it down step-by-step below, I approached At Auroras Edge (oil, 30 x 40) pretty carefully with the indirect method of painting a grisaille first. Let's get started!
