Since I am living in this appartment there is a blank space above my couch.
Since about the same time I possess a bunch of acrylic colors and some cardboard and canvases. I just had no idea how to combine the two to something nice (which also is not too complicated because I’m not very skilled in acrylic painting).
However, I found something inspiring, a couple of pictures of the band Schandmaul. They show the band members in front of a reddish wall, for example? like this. So I thought I could do the same with my vampires. Two or three portraits on 65 X 50 cm cardboard.
The first one started with a digital color sketch:
It looks pretty different in acrylics – I found it hard to pick the background colors. Now they are way more saturated than on the sketch but I think it’s not too bad.
I used masking fluid to keep the sketch of Jul clean from colour. While this technique worked fine on canvas I had to learn that cardboard behaves different: After the fluid had dried it could hardly be removed again from the surface. Part of it is still there so I will simply paint on top of it. Lesson learned …
The next portrait is supposed to sport Kai. But I’d like to finish this one first.
