This was the original idea for this piece, a very simple sketch a couple of inches in size about unconditional love. The painting needed to be pure, no fussy things cluttering the image just all the power concentrated on the Impossimal and heart.
For this to work I needed an oil sketch to bring it all together and tweak the pose to have the power it needed. You can see across the bottom of the oil sketch the amount of colours I'm building up to use in the main oil painting. I moved the heart from the right to the left and made it transparent to show depth using the Impossimal stripe to enhance it.
So onto the main oil and a quick sketch out on a buff coloured board to give it some warmth.
Shadows and highlights are added using the oil sketch as reference and the colours are smoothed out as I go along.
The piercing eyes needed several layers so they go in quite early and it enables me to make sure the heart lolly is in the correct place.
That done to heart is added, more smoothing done on the highlights and shadows and fabric is painted below with the emphasis on the Impossimal gripping it.
Next comes the all important stripe, very roughly at first then it's gradually smoothed out using brushes and a fine edge is given to it using a small long haired brush.
Outside to get the benefit of natural daylight as I start to apply glaze after glaze to bring out the colours. After a week or so it gets its final coat and its complete.
'I Love You Too', part of the Impossimals you will see at the Christmas With The Impossimals events continuing Saturday 24th November with a free event at Castle Galleries, Solihull. Contact the gallery for details of new Impossimal paintings :)
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