She's beautiful. I like the first photo for the pose, the light and the contrast, and her portrait is a beautiful face, but prefer if her ears were fully included. Thanks much for sharing.
I see some areas where the paint is so thin, canvas is showing through then other spots where the paint is piled on thickly. the subject, colors and brush work are all very interesting and painterly but also a feeling of being incomplete.
@Ezra, it's coming along nicely but (assuming you are aiming for a high degree of realism) your job would have been made so much easier if you had first painted the canvas a dark tone like that in the inside of her ear. This unifies everything and prevents the problem of white patches pointed to by @BOB73. And painting the canvas first with oil paint in a neutral dark provides a lovely toothy surface on which to apply further paint. As it is now, you are going to have to somehow fill those white areas.
I see some areas where the paint is so thin, canvas is showing through then other spots where the paint is piled on thickly. the subject, colors and brush work are all very interesting and painterly but also a feeling of being incomplete.
Maybe I shouldn't do this anymore. Of course it feels incomplete. It's not finished. Duh.
@Ezra, it's coming along nicely but (assuming you are aiming for a high degree of realism) your job would have been made so much easier if you had first painted the canvas a dark tone like that in the inside of her ear. This unifies everything and prevents the problem of white patches pointed to by @BOB73. And painting the canvas first with oil paint in a neutral dark provides a lovely toothy surface on which to apply further paint. As it is now, you are going to have to somehow fill those white areas.
You assumed too much. And it's not canvas, it's panel. This is how I do it. I don't like the dark undercoat. Its gets in the way. The old timers on the list all have heard my rant in this already.
I did two studies which were very similar. One was on white and the other stained and the white background was 2x better. I'm not going to do dark undercoats again except in very specific circumstances.
Well @Ezra the misunderstanding with @tassieguy is that in a realism forum we aim for realism..in nature there are not random white spot of white on a coloured surface. On a side note..the painting you said is more happier..u can obtain that also painting on toned canvas using lighter values for the paint..Because if I am not wrong is not that the white is showing through but only lighter than the first, plus if u use opaque pigment the background is not visible..u see only the spot where there is no paint. Hope.it helps.
I'd love to see what you can do or have done with crayons because your paintings seem to have the same multiple color quality and energy (vitality and drive). Just a thought.
I'd love to see what you can do or have done with crayons because your paintings seem to have the same multiple color quality and energy (vitality and drive). Just a thought.
Thanks. Well interestingly maybe I did some work with chalk pastel where I did color blending and layering. Thanks. I dunno about crayons though.
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what happened to her ears? If you don’t mind me asking.