Beach
Portrait Painting
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| My attempt at the challenge painting |
The
challenge painting this month was a lovely lady . When I first saw
the photo that had to be painted I thought “Oh no, I can't paint
figures and look at that complicated background!” So I decided to
put the lady on a beach background.That made it a lot easier.
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| The original photo painting challenge |
The
figure was hard to sketch but really not difficult to paint.I chose watercolor this time as there were a lot of fiddly bits to this painting.The
face and hat in the deep shadow was the most difficult. Mike thinks there
is something also wrong with the horizon of the sea as well and he might
be right. I enjoyed doing this painting and I think I am getting slightly better as well.All these challenges may be seen also at http://paintanddrawtogether.blogspot.com/
Wow Shirley, You really have this one down pat, I sure wouldn't
ReplyDeletehabemtackled this one! really good stuff
You deserve a medal, for even attempting this, for using watercolour, and for succeeding!
ReplyDeleteSkin tones are so complicated, getting the lights light and the darks not muddy is very difficult for me.
Well done Shirley!
John