Title and Medium
You Looking At Me. It is on a 5 x 7 inches canvas board.
Artist's Statement
The monochromatic painting is using chromatic black, which I mixed up using cadmium yellow medium with equal parts of Prussian blue and got my green and then mixed in alizarin crimson. I used zinc white for mixing my chromatic black with for grays.
Now I thought on this for some time and finallu got my subject picked out. What else a white tiger, or a zebra because I wanted to do it in Chromatic black. And I find the White Tiger is a very beautiful subject to sketch. I decided size 5 x 7". I recently picked up some small canvas boards, so I decided to use those.
I sketched it out first, using artistic license made some adjustments for the painting where I used a photo reference. Then I painted it.
What I'd Do Differently
- I would do this in a bigger size, and I would do it in a realism style. High details.
Marion Boddy-Evans, Painting Guide, says:
I find the sliver of dark negative space on the right-hand side pulls my attention too strongly. I would crop the composition so the tiger goes off the composition on the right-hand side. Not only does it eliminate the distraction, putting the focus more on the face, but the shape of the negative space becomes stronger too, pushing your eye up onto the face. Hold up your hand to cut off a bit of the painting on the right and see what you think.
