Sargent copy with angel and coffee cup in progress, 18x24, acrylic on canvas, Patricia Bennett |
Acrylic is a challenging medium due to its rapid drying time. Sargent's color mixing seems to be making a massive amount of one tone, then taking that tone and varying its value and tone with subtle additions of other colors. He uses a warm stroke, then attached to it is a cool stroke. I noticed this in the hair area, which he treats as tree foliage in his drawings, and in the nose and eyelids...
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