Painting with MilanC. part 09: Патријарх Павле
Just like always, here are the main phases of my painting process:
01. Preparation phase;
02. Sketch phase;
03. Painting phase.
I Preparation phase:
Since this is the first portrait of 2025, I wanted to paint something religious for good luck. For the next painting, I had an idea to paint the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Pavle. For the source, here is the picture:
For this painting, I’ll be using pencils and crayons on Blok 5 (A5 format paper). I also used crayons, wooden colors, pencils and a black marker. For colors, I was using a combination of blue, gray, yellow, orange, red black and brown.
II Sketch phase:
In this phase, I'll draw a sketch for the painting, nothing special. After drawing the sketch, we’ll end up with something like this:
III Painting phase:
For the last phase, we'll focus on painting the details from the bottom and slowly working to the top. One more thing to mention is that I had some trouble because the paper was low quality, which would tear a bit, leaving small white spots. But for now, it should look something like this:
The only thing left to do after painting the main details was the background, which I finished at approximately 3:00AM. It wasn't that difficult painting the background, but at last, the painting looks like this:
If you have other painting suggestions, let me know down below. I hope you enjoy this one.