Have had this image for a long time…..imagined how when I painted it, the paint would smoothly flow between skin color and shadows. Instead she’s looking bruised. I think she’s in despair at how I painted her. Time to play around with the skin color section of of Watercolor Painter’s Pocket Palette.
Let me try again. I don't think she looks bruised at all. You've really defined the form well with light and shadow and I love the color palette with the slash of turquoise in the field of oranges. She feels like she's on a beach on a very hot sunny day-- but I know she's indoors because of the baseboard. I think her shadow might extend off the mat at the bottom by just a tiny bit, but that's not a deal-breaker. I like this, Greeta. And that's so funny about the Pocket Palette book (you are referring to that book with swatches and mixtures, right?) I was just looking at it the other day and wondering why I don't use it more!
ReplyDeleteThis is a very modern painting. At first I was going to suggest a landscape orientation, but really, the way the blue mat is cut off and she’s squeezed into this small space creates the tension of what’s going on? On painting shadows, the best advice I’ve found is put down a thin wash of the local color followed by a thin wash of the complement and let them mix. Let it dry and then another thin wash of the complement. That’s what I did for the last tree painting, which turned out the best.
ReplyDeleteIt this a a great composition— it’s worth trying again.
ReplyDeleteOh this is despair. This is Persephone at the break of winter wishing she was at the beach like she was yesterday, where she perfected her golden brown tan, which will now slowly fade as she spends the winter in this drab yoga class while Old Man Winter pounds on the window with his icy fists. Oh this is despair.
ReplyDeleteDon't change a thing.
I agree, the composition fits perfectly with the paper proportions. You could play around with the lights and darks some if you wanted to. Maybe the black shadow is too dark compared to the lightest area of her skin, mat or hair.
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