This week I finished the independent project. I first went back over the skin, trying to add more contrast. The hardest part was the edge of her chin where there was a blue shadow which I found difficult to recreate. Also the lips were very challenging and I’m still not completely happy with how they look. Then I repainted the fingers and struggled to make the knuckles look right. The right-most finger I pretty much had to change from the photo because it was looking really weird. Then I painted a purple shirt to play off of the yellow lemon. Then, I started painting the background a red-orange color, but that didn’t look very good, so I repainted it lime green. I think the skin still looks a little weird, but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. For my in-class project I finally finished my sketch and mostly finished Brunei underpainting. I personally struggle with painting from life so this is definitely a challenge for me. I think it looks pretty good. Next step is to add some highlights.
This week, I finalized my composition for my in class project, and started the charcoal sketch. I didn't have the small jam jar I wanted so I'm instead using a spice shaker that I'll try to make look like a mini jar. For the croissant, I used acrylic spray? to prevent any molding as I paint. I chose to zoom in a lot more for the final composition so I'll be able to get more details. I also worked on the independent project. I focused on making the fingers look more realistic, and fixing the fingernails. I'm still having difficulty making the fingernails look proportional, but I think they look good otherwise. I started playing with glazes to do less opaque layers, and that's been helping the paints blend.
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June 2021
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