Oil on canvas
2024

Self Portrait in Umber is a quick self-portrait primarily using burnt umber. 

Here I used straight-from-the-tube burnt umber  as my darkest point of the painting and worked upwards to my highlighting white through the transitory tones of cadmium red and cadmium yellow.

The mark-making within the piece is thick and unblinded, leaving red colours butted up together to create the illusion of a strong light glowing hotly against my face.