This painting has been such an up and down journey for me. There have been times in this process where it has been fun, beautiful, and also the moments where I felt that it was so desperately wrong that I even cut the canvas in half ... painting and ALL!!!! In the end I have learned so much about patience, struggle, excitement, and life! I know that I have said it before, but I am going to have to say it again... this painting, like all other art (I feel) is never truly finished to the degree in which I would like it, or in which I see it in my head... and so, the great and only thing to do is to abandon each piece of art/painting/drawing/etc. at a stage where you are happy with it. This point happened for me, and so I decided to stop fiddeling and to step back. So, it is done. Scroll down to see the journey in progress... I wish I would have gotten a picture of the 2 halfs of the canvas... I cut the first portrait in half across the face, and started over again. Enjoy!
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| Some people said the eye on the dark side was "dead" so somehow I was suppose to bring it to life. That is the difficulty with painting from foto's. |
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| I wish it were the custom to hang portraits upsidedown... |
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| and so with a few artistic libterties!!!! VIOLA!!! |
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| That bonnet was so troublesome... |
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| again...the upsidedown thing |
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| At this stage I was just impatient and mentally d o n e . . . |
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| Painting in light makes a HUGE difference... |
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| It looked better to me, I suppose, any other way but up... |
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| I was kinda happy with the painting at odd and peculiar angles... |
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| This stage wasn't bad... |
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| That eye will always be my favorite part, I think |
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| I liked the feel of how the face actually felt like there was some heavyness of chub in the cheeks... |
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| Forver through the whole process the bonnet on the left side looked so odd... cameras can do wacky things with light and distortion of space. |
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| Looks more like a person! |
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| Portrait attempt #2 . . . |
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| Started over with a BETTER drawing on paper to get the general shape/light/shadows |
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| And... this is the stage at which I got super frustrated and just cut the canvas in two... |
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| Kept on losing the feel of the mouth, I guess. |
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| There's potential... |
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| The trick, just like with life, is to not get discouraged! |
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| It's amazing how creepy a painting can look in the process... |
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| Painting has started... even though I did not like the under drawing, or any drawings I had done of the baby... |
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| This was the beautiful under layer of painting on the canvas...the colors were SO gorgeous! |
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