Okay, now it's starting to get interesting...for me at least.
I'm realizing now how much I've been holding back, exercising restraint, keeping background colors and light/dark values limited to express the idea of people from earlier eras moving back in time. Honestly, it's all been a little frustrating and tedious. But now, as I begin to paint in the foreground figures representing the present day, I can throw all that restraint out the window and revel in full color and strong darks.
It feels good.
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As I painted them in, the foreground heads starting popping out almost like they were in 3-D, an effect that's more pronounced in the original than it appears here.
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This beautiful girl was fun to paint.
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And here's an extreme closeup of the young man on the left. Be sure you click the images to see them enlarged.
3 comments:
Your mural is going to have a "mood" as well as a sense of time and history. Bravo!
Hi Shirley--what a nice thing to say...it heartens me on this project--thanks!
Is it watercolor painting?
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