Painting Challenge #3
Two-inch paint brush
Human figure
Limited Palette of 4 colors:
Azo Coral
Cadmium Red Light
Burnt Umber
Burnt Sienna
(White)
We've had a good long while to finish this painting
(about 3 months)
and so we all decided to
reveal them at Barbara's house a few days ago.
Our reveal was so exciting!
Here are my progress shots.
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| Sketch of my subject. |
The photo I found for my painting (on one of the art blogs I follow)
was fairly monotone to begin with;
it felt just right for this limited palette.
I requested and acquired permission to use the photo
from the artist/photographer Melanie Kobayashi and this is her website:
Her post where I found the photo is HERE
... keep scrolling down in her blog
to see the actual photo that I "stole".
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| Charcoal and alcohol to set sketch on board. |
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| I drew what her legs might look like under the dress to be sure of placement of the dress, etc. |
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| Hazy wanted to check the painting out. I wasn't happy with the dress looking so transparent. |
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Fought Against oil on wood panel 36 x 24 inches
(There are a couple of final touches I want to make, but this is essentially finished.)
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Close-up - the lips are Cad Red Light!
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| Mel's actual photo, flipped by me. |
Stay tuned for my next post
which will be photos of my salon colleagues' challenge paintings!
Thank you SO MUCH Melanie K 💕 for giving me permission to use this photo and
for taking such fun and crazy photos for your blog. I wish you all the best!
AND
Thank you all for checking in to this crazy irregular blog!
1 comment:
Hahaha, that's great! Thanks for painting me. I love what you did, and kitty photo-bombed your photo, which is so very cute. It's my pleasure to be part of your project.
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