Anyway, since I have been in art denial I wanted to do something that I could get down fast and wanted to work in pastel. I saw this beautiful striking lady, this picture has the best lighting effects, found as a reference piece in wet canvas's library. The lighting gave such beautiful skin tones from the purple base to almost rosy terracotta highlights - I find that true Africans have the dark base skintones that our African Amercians don't have, their base tones are more in the yellow direction. I fell in love with her style, especially the geometric interest of her hat which really focuses on her face, those diagonals push you right to her eyes. Loved the bead work too, although I don't intend to do that in this piece. Am working on lesson from one of the portrait classes of laying in the darks and lights to get the bone structure, but really at the end here I just wanted to have fun and get my fingers dirty and forget technical things. So hope you enjoy and if anyone has suggestions while I can still change things, let me know.
Hope all have had a great week and that next week brings you many happy art moments - thanks for stopping by.
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When I lived in Turin, I made friends with a family from Zaire (formerly called the Belgian Congo.) They had a particular skin color, while living in Turin, but when they returned to their country ... and laughing said to be tanned back!
They had again particular skin color, according to their judgment,that only gives the African sun!