Right now the weather is blustery and chilly and the temperatures have dropped to frost alert, it is full on fall. There was/is no happy transition from the hot to the 70s/60s, the temps just fell to the 50s with blustery 20 mph winds! No fair! Probably I could deal with the cool, but winds are a challenge to even the best painter.
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| Frida 2018, a work completed at home from photos |
I have been thinking a lot about my recent art workshops and I have been back to painting portraits from life with my art group. At home, I also have been working on a portrait from a photograph which has taken me many many hours! I think and hope that I have finally finished the at home portrait, it took forever! Frida is the work that I have been working on at home. I got wonderful expressive eyes and I think the skin tone is good. I had trouble with the flowers, the bright big lovely fake flowers, so hard to paint! The flowers started too bright and with too much the same light color (no depth) I had to go back in and add the darks. I ended up changing the background from green to a blue purple with a touch of pink and orange on top. I wanted the dark hair to merge with the background. I also had a darker burgundy lip, but lightened it a bit as it was harsh with her light skin. The light top is not white but is white-ish in color, very light. And the shadow on the top has a touch of pink and orange as those are the flower shadows on her shoulder. Definitely I like this beauty, she is done.
Having done so much portrait painting, I do wish I could change it up and go outside to paint. I will look through my photo references to see if anything strikes my fancy for a landscape I can paint in studio..
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