It's the art: Clara's portrait

This time I wanted to study the techniques that Albrecht Durer used in his painting, following the instructions I found in Joseph Sheppard's "How to paint like the old masters".

Albrecht Durer is one of the great masters I like most, and the picture begun from a solid, accurately sketched drawing in Indian ink, to be coloured with layers of colors. This increases my confidence, because when the layers of colours start to grow and the underlying sketch is gone my painting gets a bit messy.


Once the portrait was completed I was not satisfied with the yellow ocra background, and decided to add Pimpa, the comics character that Clara liked most. But still, despite my efforts, this is quite different from Albrecht Durer. What will be his secret?

(Oil on Canvas, 40x50cm - click on image to enlarge)