Abandon mixed media woman portrait
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Leo-Vinh Beauvois, a terrific French artist, was this week's teacher and wow, did she ever have a complicated lesson just full of information. It has taken me most of the week to watch the videos and think it through in my head how I would approach a picture using her technique. She really uses bold, non-traditional colors. So that was my charge for this picture to really let loose and use color. I do like the photo reference she used as it has a really unusual head angle and will probably give it a try at a future time.
First she collages the whole picture surface. I have been reading more and more where people are using the collage papers/tissues because it really helps the paint and other media to stick plus it really does give a nice surface to paint on. I kept the collage pretty smooth for this picture, but the next one I really experimented with purposefully have lots of textures.
You can see where the napkin really shows through the first layer of hair color. I tried hard to keep as much of it as I could as it really added a lot of additional color to the overall picture. As you can see I had some neck issues that needed correcting and ended up collaging more tissue layers to adjust to the shape I wanted it.
The reference photo was really high key so I added quite a bit more color so I could get some shape and modeling into the facial features. I used my dagger brush, which I absolutely adore, for the hair and to do the transparent fabric areas. Got to say this was a pretty fun picture. So much so that I have another drying for tomorrows playtime.
Thanks much for stopping by and taking a look.
First base layer Original Collage
First base layer Original Collage
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