This is a great year for forsythia— those yellow bushes you see all over the place. The cooler weather has kept them in bloom much longer this year. I brought some in branches in and painted them.
I don’t know if this girl is done yet. I like the tree shadows I added and am thinking of putting a shadow across the right side of the dress from that most forward tree. Also I want to add some more frills to her dress.
This is my preliminary painting for this one, also based on a Moderson painting (below) but using Quinn’s face and party hat. Just a quickie to work out colors, shapes etc. I like her but sort of undecided about the background. The more I look at the source painting, the more things I see. I think I want to keep things simpler…
I like the first one. Great job on the forsythia….got enough color that they stand on their own. The second one is just odd enough to be cool. You’ve left room for the birches so you might as well do it.
ReplyDeleteYes! That forsythia does stand out now. I love the branches and the way the light is described in the shadows and on the drape. I also really like the portraits--the paintings themselves and the process, from the inspiration to the ways you've made them your own. The first one is beautifully composed and there's a real sense of an actual person and not just a generic "girl." The study for the second one is also promising. Love her face with the puffed out cheeks and the fact that she's in party clothes alone in a woodland setting. For the final, I'd include the whole hat and her feet. Honestly, I like both of yours better than the inspiration paintings.
ReplyDeleteYour inside outside painting is superb. (If only it could be cropped properly...) And the portraits with your own twist to them are going great too. Yeah, put her whole self in the final ptg. - party hat to boots and maybe elongate her skirt/dress a bit. very cool
ReplyDeleteI think your window painting is swell, but I have to know why are the bricks a different color in the two window panes? I'd like a little more detail in the sitting girl's skirt, something soft so that it looks like it might be swirling.
ReplyDeleteThe window view with interior so interesting. You should be rotating these framed window paintings next to actual window with appropriate seasons.
ReplyDeleteClever putting your girl in the historic paintingc