This is Jake, the older brother of Grant. This painting was also completed from a Derby Day photo. Again, I tried to keep the painting loose, with subtle shades of coloring.  Just as in Grant’s painting, I used both greens and purple (green gold, permanent green 1, and dioxazine violet with raw umber and raw sienna as the main color) for shading in the hair with cobalt violet light and cobalt blue for shadows in the face. Because of their light skin tones and hair coloring, these colors had to be very weak, very very light glazes or it would be too harsh.

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