I’ve had quite a productive day today, I finished a painting of the garden that I’d had on the go for ages. Then I found a bit of primed board in the cupboard and did a self portrait, direct observation style.
This is the portrait, which, although I am quite pleased with it as a picture, I still do not think looks like me. It’s so much easier to do likenesses of people other than yourself! I don’t know what it is about it.
This is the garden picture, which I started from direct observation a few weeks ago and have been occasionally doing a bit from a photograph. I decided to just get it done today so I can get on to my big canvas.
The saturation on the blue is a bit weird in that photo, I did try upping the yellow quite a bit but it didn’t seem to have much effect, in real life the green is greener.
So now I have that done I can start on my big canvas, if I can find something to put on it. At the mo I am not feeling quite well enough to get up and walk 5 miles before dawn to take the correct photo, so I think I will have to bully a parent into taking me in the car…
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July 30, 2007 at 1:30 am
It is done.
Look at you Miss Arty! They’re all lovely (these and the ones from the last post) as always. And I can definately say that that looks like you.