Random art - watercolours

[amberdreams]

Practicing using one colour and layering for tone contrast.
Inspired by a photo by Alessio Albi.


This was using A Gallo's quinacridone red-gold.

Comments

[midnightsilvers.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhhhh 😮 holy shit! This is beautiful!
The composition is gorgeous. I adore the play of textures from the flowing hair! So beautiful. Like they are sleeping underwater 😄🤗. and I love the light and shadow on the skin. Really captures their expressions. I love this 🥰🥰

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Aw thank you so much! The composition is pretty much from the photo with some slight changes. So happy you think the light and skin tones work.

[midnightsilvers.livejournal.com]

I’m not familiar with the source reference but I’m thinking you have honoured it incredibly well! Very beautifully captured. 🤷🏻‍♂️😄 it just speaks to me, I love it! 😄

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I was trying to find a link to the original image but blowed if I can find it so here's a thumbnail. He's a really interesting photographer.

[midnightsilvers.livejournal.com]

The natural light is gorgeous in the reference photo 🤗
Still something about the cohesiveness and way the flow is emphasised in your version that just grabs me 😄🤗

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

It's nice to put our own twist on things, ain't it. Ta very much!

[kalliel]

This is really gorgeous! I love how much shade variation there is even just using this one color. It really brings out the depth of the image.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

The middle strip is the original page colour — I had thought to leave some white showing to increase the contrast but in the end I did a light wash over both of them and worked in layers on that. So happy you think it works!

[finchandsparrow.livejournal.com]

This is so gorgeous!!! The shading is just beautiful. I love how you reinterpreted the original image.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you! 😊

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

that is just really, really pretty.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Cheers! 💜