Week 5 creative copy

For week 5 I chose Frank Auerbach, Head of Catherine Lampert from Painting Today, p 174. My process for this copy was to just map out the form with a dark blue color and paint the base coat of color generally in that area. It didn’t work so well when i started putting the yellow on the blue. So, for the second I under painted in black acrylic and then glazed over the top. It turned out my first was a semi decent copy of the original and that my creative copy did put a more recognizable figure out. I figured the thing that was important to Auerbach was the shape of the hair and the shirt. So, that’s what I focused on. After about a hour on the first copy and struggling to get it right I quit and I really like that I finally gave up and moved on. I feel like I learned his point.