Well am back working on the Grand Canyon which is acrylic on paper and for me is a pretty large piece, 16x23. It is pretty slow and tedious and I realized I really am doing the same thing over and over so am trying to use some larger brushes. However, I need to stay within the tightness of the original painting, hope some painting later to get looser. Am getting to some ridges now where it is smoother rock and will have the final ridge come in cutting across the front, the pine tree and then the ledge we are standing on overlooking the canyon floor. When I successfully complete this (how is that for positive thinking) I have some additional photos I am going to try. The majesty of this place, the awesome large expanse of just rock and ridges that go on for 30-40 miles, nothing can really do it justice I think. Am looking at the planes and will probably adjust the big mountain in the middle for more shadows. I am working from multiple photos so you can see I am having to adjust lighting and can probably tweak that with glazes.
Her Highness mixed media woman portrait
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
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