Date of Completion: 14 December 2023
Medium: Oil Paint, Prussian Blue and Titanium White
Inspiration: Tom of Finland
This is one of a pair of blue-scale oil paintings I did in 2023 to get back into oils, as well as learn different types of painting styles and techniques. The Prussian Chest was thus a study piece and it is made up of tiny little dots (pointillism). I practiced using this approach to learn mixing the medium, how it would be applied to another medium (in this case glass I had left over from floral pressings), and to learn how to shade. It was, overall, simply applying the right tint (adding white to a pure hue), which I found most effective to enter the medium.
The image itself is from a Tom of Finland graphite drawing that I really enjoyed due to the values that the graphite created, particularly on the right pectoral. It looked somewhat metallic and engrossed in light, but also displayed a highlight in a shadow, which I specifically wanted to learn. I saw it as a good starting point to study oils and felt it would look nice in blue-scale. To me, it turned out pretty good!
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