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  • Welcome
  • Events
  • Current Projects
    • PBS Kids: Mixed Media Art Studio Visit with Pinkalicious & Peterrific
    • URBANO Project's 2019 Artist in Residence
    • Liminal
    • Mariposas & Mangos
    • Rocky
    • Melancholy
    • Eager
  • Public Art
    • Big, Red & Shiny Inside/Out Artist Residency
    • Our Mattapan Campaign
    • Project In Process: Our Mattapan
    • EMERGENCE: What does hope look like?, a community fueled sculpture for Boston Center for the Arts
    • Project in Process: EMERGENCE at Boston Center for the Arts
    • Worthy, a community beautification in Grove Hall via The City of Boston's PaintBox Project
    • The Public Trust, a multi-site interactive public art project in Boston
    • TEXTURES, a site specific installation for Haley House Bakery Cafe
    • Roxbury Rhapsody, a Boston Art Commission for the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building
  • Large Scale Mixed Media Art
    • Let Men Be Feminine
    • Pity Party
    • Dignity
    • Two Heads: Righty
    • Two Heads: Lefty
    • Cool, Calm, & Collected
    • Glee
    • Joy
    • Bliss
    • Flight
    • Summertime Sublime
    • KTR (Kristyn, Tiff, & Rafia)
  • Small Scale Mixed Media Art
    • Buoyant
    • Tender
    • American Dreamin'
    • Names That Won't Get You The Job Interview
    • So They Say
    • Tenderness
    • Easier Said Than Done
    • Missunderstandings
    • Distain
    • Whirlwinds
    • Under The Weather
    • Started By Juan
    • When Love Takes A Break
    • Confuzzled
  • Paintings
    • More Than Black
    • Waiting
    • Sass
    • Aldora
    • Ellen
    • Pensive
  • Illustrations
    • Instant Hipster
    • Curious Kitten
    • Obama Says So
  • About Chanel Thervil
  • Work as an Educator
  • Press
  • CV
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  • Follow Me on Instagram
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  • © 2019 Chanel Thervil

Making Faces

April 03, 2017

With all those abstract forms done, it's time to get those faces painted!

I spend a lot of time envisioning how each layer of color will engage with each other. What's really exciting about painting flesh is the wide range of shades and values that make up the hue of our tones and bring life to the image.

Black ink is the finishing touch to highlight the deepest areas of the face and add lashes. More to come soon!

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Project in Process: Our Mattapan Campaign 

Follow my adventures, as I create a large scale series of portraits of Mattapan residents! To read a full summary about this commission, click here.