Goodmorning Nelvia! How fast you are going. I can't do it this fast:) I'm also working on the PADT chellenge. You made a beautiful start lady:) Your level improves by the day. Already a compliment for the part you did!!! Big hugs.xxx
Bold Ok, for today's portrait I went out of the box and decided to try a different look and approach. This is on watercolor paper, I applied a layer of paper collate over it (you can see that some of it started lifting - so got to use more medium to glue it next time) Anyway then I tried to leave part of that under collage showing, even in the face. Went back in and applied several more light lawyers of transparent and opaque paint and then put in the hair using my dagger bus. Gosh that brush makes hair so much easier While this might not the best example what are your thoughts to taking portraits this more dynamic direction? Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.
Her Highness I just absolutely loved the expression on this lady and knew I wanted to try to capture her elegance and serenity. I knew that I didn't want an exact portrait and decided to try another mixed media piece. I added blobs of paint and used my large scraper to make the areas of color. Just put paint on a piece of watercolor paper. Then I inscribed and mixed the colors together with the end of my brush and got all the wavy lines (in real life they actually stand up so there is a 3D effect to the background). Where I thought I wanted the face I really scraped most of the paint off, and ended up with color blotches and tones, and if you look in the forehead you can sort of see the design that was left. I thought it would add some variance to the skin tones. I also want to keep her very soft so I tried to stay in the pastel tones, even with the lips. Once I got shadows and lights added in, and went over it with some skin tone and more blue colors I let
Seems that Blogger was having some hiccups and I stopped posting here. Then guess I got lazy and just didn't check until now if they were back in business. But in the meanwhile, February has come and gone and ended up being busy working with Figurary and trying to stay on top of my lessons. Great outlet with lots of wonderful, inspirational artists was posting daily with 30 Day Creative Challenge. This challenge group was designed to replace Leslie Saeta's as she has moved on to other endeavors close to her heart.
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You made a beautiful start lady:) Your level improves by the day. Already a compliment for the part you did!!! Big hugs.xxx