I'm still working on the portrait and suspect I will be for several more days. Right now it is not fun...grrr... paintings that just seem to paint themselves are so much more fun. Don't you agree? I have been struggling with the values in the ladies face all day. If she were here and I could look at her I would probably have better luck seeing the values, but she isn't and I am working from a photo so I am struggling. Not long ago I was working on a painting and I knew there was a problem... but for the longest time I couldn't put my finger on it. Then the light came on... (that happens once in a while cause I think I have a short in my brain somewhere!!) I grabbed my camera and took a photo of the painting, put it in photoshop and turned it black and white and printed it out. I wanted to compare it to the value study I had done earlier. As luck will have it sometime, the problem stuck out like a sore thumb... all the values seemed to run together. Oh that all problems would be so simple to fix... today I came across a color value chart I made several years ago... you may have one like this...
Since it was made so long ago I couldn't remember if I ever checked the values in black and white to see how close I had gotten with the colors. So, I checked it... like I do my paintings.
And, another light has come on... so I'm going to take a black and white of the portrait and see if I get a little better perspective on how it is really coming along. It may be a heart thumping moment after all.
Be Still My Art,
Kay
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