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amberdreams) wrote2018-06-19 10:16 pm
amberdreams) wrote2018-06-19 10:16 pm
Speed painting and stuff
Today I went to an expressive portraits, speed painting in acrylics workshop - it was a lot of fun and TOTALLy outside of my comfort zone... but then so was the watercolour essentials workshop on Saturday. So what, you may well ask, IS my comfort zone? Heh heh. I'll tell you my comfort zone, folks. It's snuggled on my sofa, asleep.
Back to today though...
I had a vague idea that I might be able to do something for one of the upcoming challenges, and my lovely friend Lois, who runs the workshop, messaged me to ask if I had any references I wanted her to print for me, so I pinged her off four photos of - you guessed it - Jensen and Jared.
For my first painting, I tried Jared. We had to pick a piece of mounting board to paint on, and like my other workshop with Lois, the idea was to have a mid tone background colour you could then use, and the painting would start with a pale yellow to pick out all the highlights. Then the other colours could be added and the darks last. There's no drawing, except with the paint brush.
This was the result, with the reference pic.
Larger without the reference.
I did my usual trick of first making his nose too long, then when I corrected that, ending up with his mouth and chin too large. However, it isn't too bad and looks kind of cool - I like the colours, and though you can't see from the photo, there's actually a lot of gold in there and so the painting has a nice sheen to it when the light hits it.
Then I tried Jensen singing, from a reference by somer. This was less successful (in my oppinion, anyway!) and I haven't got a decent photo of it yet, because I forgot to take one in the art studio in daylight. If I can get a photo tomorrow I'll add it, but in the meantime, onto my third attempt. There was this very bright red mounting board so I thought, hell, why not, and grabbed it for my final, last ditch effort.
Again, riddled with errors but I did have a lot of fun with this - I loved the colours and went a bit nuts with the iridescent paint - which again, you can't really see in the photos. you'll just have to take my word for it, they are there!
With reference
Close up without the reference.
And finally - I took a photo this evening of all three paintings together
Now I have three A2 sized paintings I have NO idea what to do with! LOL Any suggestions???
Back to today though...
I had a vague idea that I might be able to do something for one of the upcoming challenges, and my lovely friend Lois, who runs the workshop, messaged me to ask if I had any references I wanted her to print for me, so I pinged her off four photos of - you guessed it - Jensen and Jared.
For my first painting, I tried Jared. We had to pick a piece of mounting board to paint on, and like my other workshop with Lois, the idea was to have a mid tone background colour you could then use, and the painting would start with a pale yellow to pick out all the highlights. Then the other colours could be added and the darks last. There's no drawing, except with the paint brush.
This was the result, with the reference pic.
Larger without the reference.
I did my usual trick of first making his nose too long, then when I corrected that, ending up with his mouth and chin too large. However, it isn't too bad and looks kind of cool - I like the colours, and though you can't see from the photo, there's actually a lot of gold in there and so the painting has a nice sheen to it when the light hits it.
Then I tried Jensen singing, from a reference by somer. This was less successful (in my oppinion, anyway!) and I haven't got a decent photo of it yet, because I forgot to take one in the art studio in daylight. If I can get a photo tomorrow I'll add it, but in the meantime, onto my third attempt. There was this very bright red mounting board so I thought, hell, why not, and grabbed it for my final, last ditch effort.
Again, riddled with errors but I did have a lot of fun with this - I loved the colours and went a bit nuts with the iridescent paint - which again, you can't really see in the photos. you'll just have to take my word for it, they are there!
With reference
Close up without the reference.
And finally - I took a photo this evening of all three paintings together
Now I have three A2 sized paintings I have NO idea what to do with! LOL Any suggestions???