I've only met Zoe once quite a while ago so had to paint from photos. My friend gave me quite a few of them but almost all of them 'blew out' the lighter colors so that they appeared white. I didn't realize that Zoe has some tannish color until my friend pointed it out. I still didn't see it even after tweaking the photos in my graphics software. She sent me new photos, very close up and I think I was able to add those markings.
It's very difficult to work from photos so I'm waiting to hear back as to whether I got the markings right or not. In the meantime, here is where I am with the portrait of Zoe. This is probably the final with maybe a few tweaks. It's gouache and watercolor on Arches Cold Pressed, 11 x 14 inches in size.
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| ZOE - watercolor and gouache on paper, 11x14" |
1 comment:
Don't you just hate working from photos like that ... I haven't seen the refs, of course, but think Zoe is just beautiful and I hope you aren't asked to do any further tweaking.
Its amazing how very different images look when viewed on different computers/monitors also ... Whilst in the Canaries/Spain recently I compared a couple of my photos on a tablet, laptop computer and a friend's computer and was amazed to see how the colours/tones varied.
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