Today, I painted the fingers. If you look at the reference photo, the angle of the thumb is really weird so I'm going to go back and try to make it look like its bent instead of just coming from the camera angle. I ended up having to paint the skin tone three times because I kept messing up the colors and I'm still not completely satisfied with the result.
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I accomplished a lot over the past few days. Mainly, I repainted the entire face, and I think it looks so much better. I used the technique I saw on youtube and even though it looks a little gray/dull still, the values are much improved. I have a difficult time mixing the right paint colors especially as acrylic dries so fast, so being able to remake colors and somewhat blend them out was huge for me! I also painted the mouth. It will need two coats to not be so translucent because they were dark colors. I also painted the background color light purple, which I also need to repaint bc somehow I got that white spot in the middle.
I forgot to take a photo of just the sketch, but the canvas size is 24" x 24". I'm having a lot of difficulty with the skin tone. I think I need to use an underpainting in the future, because the colors look really dull. I'm somewhat happy with how the hair is looking. I looked at some youtube videos about mixing skin tone so I'm going to try again in a few days with a new technique using white, cadmium red, yellow ochre, alizarin crimson, and a blue color. I'm also not a huge fan of how I painted the cookie. The reference photo is at a weird angle with a bite out of it so I'm going to hopefully go back with the background color to make that clearer.
Sorry the slideshow shows up so large, but I finally got the photos taken for the summer project. I decided to go with the cookie, but it looks kinda boring so I'm going to have to embellish the painting a bit. The photo I'm going with is the one that shows up first, and then the second is the original photo, the third is just another option I had. I think I'm actually going to paint Maeve to look different, because I think the series could use variety. In the future, I'm going to just ask some friends to model for the next ones. I'm thinking the background could be purple or dark blue.
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