Oil Portrait - Zorn Palette Extended 2

Update on yesterday's portrait, went in and added all the bangles and jangles and fangles. They didn't turn out as metallic as they should be, I need to take more care when mixing up their colors and values, but overall I'm satisfied with how this piece has turned out, I think the flesh is working well and the thin paint in the background is sitting back in space pretty good.

Some things that'll need to be worked on will be getting a more accurate likeness to the reference, getting more color variation, and making some more interesting compositions. Slowly but surely getting more comfortable with oils, though.

Oil Portrait - Zorn Palette Extended

Here's another oil portrait. Like that Steven Assael copy, this was the extended zorn palette, which is titanium white, cadmium yellow pale, yellow ochre, cadmium red light, alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue, and ivory black. Despite only having 7 colors, it's a pretty complex palette to work in, when you learn about using relative grays to get warms and cools with just the 4 colors of the zorn palette, adding more chromatic colors and a real blue gives soooo many possibilities that it's hard to decide what to use, and we're still nowhere near using a full color palette, haha.

As far as this particular painting goes, I'm kinda on the fence with it. I like some of the color and handling of paint, but my drawing is way off and it's not working too well compositionally. The reference also had really crazy light so it was hard to tell which planes were which, so my lighting ended up being somewhat inconsistent. But, practice makes perfect I suppose.