Liebling Swen

Size: 50×70

Surface: Canvas

Mediums: Oil paint

Date: 15/03/2025

I wanted to make a portrait of my partner Swen because they’re my love of my life, my sunshine. They help me to cope with most of my traumatic events and support me emotionally,phisycally. This painting belongs to the serie called “CMYK Chronicals”. Here is the process:

First, i start with an ébauche underpaint which literally means a sketch underpainting to map out my basic shapes and form.

After the grisaille, i start to do fun part of painting which is glazing. In this painting, strated with a lot of Magenta from CMYK.

Then, i do a rendering in grisaille which is an grey scale painting. Grisaille is K(keycolour) in CMYK.

Then, i followed it up with Cyan from CMYK. I kinda went back and forth with Magenta and Cyan to make the blue deeper and i also established some highlights that were lost in the process with titanium white.

Finally, i finished it of with some Yellow from CMYK with a little bit of finishing touches.