Porcelain Painting

Lesson 4: Lesson 4

Australian Aboriginal

This lesson covers a technique with few brush strokes and colour combinations.

The aim with this technique is to establish dark tonal values and features are wiped out from the shadow areas.
NOTE: we do not paint or draw the features first with this technique but make sure your feature measurements are correct.

My subject is an Australian Aboriginal (this method may be applied to any portrait once you know your feature placements.)
I chose an oval porcelain shape and when it was completed, glued it to a timber panel to complement the subject matter.

Colours used:

• Old Gold.
• Finishing Brown.
• Hair Brown.
Pur Pur.

• Brushes used:
  • Stippler
  • Pointer
  • Small Piece of Fine Sponge.
  1. Mark out the facial area and tint with Old Gold (leave the background white.)
  2. Mix Finishing Brown + Hair Brown and with the stippler brush paint in the shadow areas.
  3. Wipe back the lighter tones and then softly pounce the colour with a fine piece of sponge (this will give texture to the skin.)
  4. Paint the head band and strands of hair. Place colour into the beard and moustache then wipe out the highlights with a wipe-out tool. FIRE.
  5. Paint PUR PUR over the entire face and wipe back the highlights.
  6. With a medium pointer use Finishing Brown + Pur Pur, darken the shadow areas around the eyes, nose and the darker side of the face. Details of the hair may be painted.
  7. A small emblem of a boomerang is painted in the Back ground (this is optional.) FIRE.

  This is a simple technique but the previous lessons have been important to learn observation and feature placements.

  Aileen
  
   

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