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| Hugo E. Robus, Jr. (My husband's father, 1942) |
I have come to the end (pretty much)
of my portrait explorations from tiny b&w photos
in the Shaw Field yearbook for the Army Air Forces Training Center, class of 1942.
For a refresher as to what I am talking about,
the link 👇 will take you to the first post in the project.
since painting those portraits,
so I warmed up by painting another one first.
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| Robert L. Simpson, Cadet |
I didn't put as much of a gap in his teeth as he actually had ... when
I tried, it just looked weird.
To begin Matt's father's portrait, I made a charcoal sketch of him,
and used fixative to set the charcoal.
I used a hair dryer to dry the casein fixative, a pump bottle by SpectraFix.
My palette, ready to go.
I only took two progress photos.
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| Hugo E. Robus, Jr. |
Ok, I think I am finally saturated with painting portraits from
the Shaw Field yearbook.
It was very good practice, though, to paint a portrait from a tiny black & white photo.
Admittedly, some of the pictures are wacky
but that is how I felt like doing them.
There are some I really like, others I don't.
I asked Matt (my hubby) what actually was the color
of the cap, shirt and tie. He told me they were probably khaki, with the tie being
a darker brown, or black. So I tried to be true to that for these last two.
I tried to make a nice photomontage of the portraits, but could not figure out how
to do 25 of them ... so this is just a sampling of about half.
(I used Canva ... but did not really know what I was doing.)
It is so cool to see even these few together.
Please share this post if you know someone who might be interested.
Teri 🎨
