Saturday, August 29, 2020

Sara Labors On...


So, I did these two studies to practice and get a feel for painting the skin tones. The second one on the right is definitely an improvement. I like the way the hair and the baby’s face are painted.

I also worked on the sketch for a long time. 

I started the painting. It’s on hot press, so I’m trying to remember how to control the paint. And then I’ve read so much about warm and cool colors and cool highlights and warm shadows that I’ve thoroughly confused myself about how to use color. But I guess I’ll just see where my haphazard methods take me.... .
 

7 comments:

  1. ekoAugust 29, 2020 at 8:15 PM

    I learn so much when you show your work. All the sketches and color and value studies contribute so much to the final. I like the second one too. Besides the hair and the baby face, I like the way you kept the values close between the fax we and hair and have all the colors so warm and sunny.

    Hot press huh? That's going to be a challenge! Don't worry about warm and cool and highlights and shadows. Just do what you want. Your color instincts are the best.

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    1. ekoAugust 29, 2020 at 8:17 PM

      That's hair and face, by the way. Darn that auto spell

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  2. sjdAugust 29, 2020 at 9:03 PM

    I wish I trusted my instincts. Instead I keep googling watercolor skin tones to see what everyone else says...But I gotta say, looking at it now — I love her fat little legs!

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  3. paoAugust 30, 2020 at 7:52 AM

    I never paid attention to the cool and warm theories. It's all relative to whatever is around them anyway. Don't bother with it and just paint. Values yes, colors not as important. But you already know that. The second one has the look and the feeling. Your drawing/tracing is great. You've captured just what needs to be. And the current one is looking swell. Just paint.

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  4. sjdAugust 30, 2020 at 10:33 AM

    It’s a freehand grid drawing. I use tracing paper because I have a lot of it and it’s easy to erase. Plus I have grids in 1 inch and 2 inCh that I can just slip behind the tracing paper — no need to draw a grid every time! It only took me 10 years to figure out that! I use the free Grid app on my iPad to grid the photos. Once I get the image sized and grid set up I can take a photo of the image with the grid for reference. It only took a year for me to figure out that...

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    1. paoAugust 31, 2020 at 9:22 AM

      Alright then. Good use of technology as I would never have figured that out. I would have just looked at the subject, asked you to sit still, taking a break as needed, and painted. Not even sketching. Probably 4 hours or so, and then come back the next day and do it again and again until it was done. That's just how I worked on all my pieces. No photographs. Pretty old fashioned, eh?

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  5. Uncle KenSeptember 1, 2020 at 5:14 AM

    I just have trouble with your face. Well not your own personal face which let me tell you is very lovely, but the face in the painting, just doesn't look like you. The glasses, the nose, the downturn of the mouth, something just doesn't look like you.

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