Mebble Offering a Thronabulax

Mebble Offering a Thronabulax

Design for a personal weather-proof sticker for my brother’s birthday so that he can adorn the streets of New York with his own features and a peaceful offering of a thronabulax flower.

Oil on acrylic primed wood panel. Ground was then toned with a combination of Gamblin Fastmatte Raw Sienna and Flake White

Palette and Supplies:

  • Cadmium Red Medium
  • Quinacridone Red
  • Quinacridone Violet
  • Gold Ochre
  • Transparent Orange
  • Viridian Green
  • Permanent Green Light
  • Raw Umber
  • Burnt Umber
  • Cerulean Blue
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Dioxazine Purple
  • Flake White
  • Chromatic Black
  • Galkyd Slow Dry Medium
  • Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits

Design was sketched onto toned canvas with graphite pencil. Background of Cerulean Blue and Flake White painted in. Immediately set to work on painting first pass at facial features and eyeglasses.

 

Second session: Added hand, flower, started massing the folds of clothing.

Third and final session: glazes, highlights

“Mebble Offering Thronabulax)” (2018). Louis Cooper. Oil on Wood Panel. 16″x12″

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