Challenge

I am fortunate to have such a talented artist, Mauricio Takiguthi, as my master. And one thing he always stresses is to forget about the result and be taken by the process. But drawing hair can be a big problem in pictoric portraits: how can you do it without being descriptive? This is easier if you doing black hair. You can work with dark masses with soft edges, but in this case I was faced with white hair. I couldn’t make a mass saturated by gray, that would go against the effect I was trying to achieve. And if I saturated the skin with gray, to make the hair look white, I’d give the model a different skin value. A challenge, indeed, and something to study. So here’s what I could do so far: a picture of Tchaikovsky.

And below, a not so known excerpt from his “Swan Lake”. The “Neapolitan Dance”.