Red Robe

This my version of a drawing done by Jacopo da Pontormo (1494-1557). The picture I took the image from was in black and white so I added my own colors. I just found a picture of the image in color here. It is a lot easier to see than the black and white copy I had and obviously the colors are different than the ones I chose. I was not familiar with the artist before now. This was a challenging painting because I had to keep track of all the folds, shadows and highlights. I did an underpainting on the skirt with tan and dark purple for the shadows. I then went over the whole skirt with white letting some of the underpaints come through. For the robe I started with a standard red and added a blue violet for the shadows and a light pink for the highlights and then I back over the whole thing with the standard red. I like how the backround looks against the figure.