Oil on canvas, 18 x 18 inches, based on a painting by Kent Williams named "Emilie".
Click here for more, and here for progressives of the painting.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Almost Emilie
Oil on canvas, 18 x 18 inches, based on a painting by Kent Williams named "Emilie".
Click here for more, and here for progressives of the painting.
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Hey Hey, nice painting. It has your signature orange vermillion tint. I like the texture. Maybe you can try overpainting the background with white instead of a dark colour like green the next time. It will really help make your overall highlights cleaner and more realistic. Especially the skin tones. Keep up the good work. :-)
For more portraits references, check out works by my favourite artists, Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville. I have been doing in depth studies of skin tones and textures lately.
Dont stop San San!- Keep going ! Keep going !
Love your energy !! May it spread to us and sweep us along better than the ass-swine flu :D!
i hate you.. no wait.. i hate your skills
Wa.. very wow! thks for sharing the progress too! :D showing loads of improvement!!!!
Thanks, Andy :) I do like Lucian Freud's work - his flesh tones and brush work are amazing. I shall lighten the background like you suggested! I shall check out Janny Saville!
Thanks, everyone for the encouragement.
And Flee...I "hate" your skills too, ha ha :) Enjoying your photos on Flickr. How about we work together and I paint someone you photograph? :)
Yo Moody! ITS SO ON!Will take something this weekend!
this is great. i like the skin tones too. I thought maybe the hair could be more defined. It does inspired me to try it out too.
Hi San San, your work is beautiful. I have so much to learn from. Thanks for sharing. :)
It will be great to see your colour palette. You have a wonderful sense to the use of colours. Well done.
San San, tell me ur diet! im having what u r having! damn hardworking!
that's really great. Especially the skin tones.
is awesome. i love the step by step docu!
i like that u paint over old painting! so van gogh! hehe.... years later ppl will marvel at it when this hangs in a museum ;)
keep up the good work x
Thanks everyone! I'll continue to work hard! There's so much to learn from all of you about illustration, it's like impossible!:)
For skin tones, my minimum oil palette is buff titianium, mixing white, yellow ochre, vermillian hue or chrome orange. Some brands have a flesh tint, which usually needs another colour mixed in to liven it up or to correct the colour a bit. I use burnt umber and a touch of ultramarine with white for shadow areas.
Museum - hee hee! They will talk about how cheap I am to keep recycling canvases. Honestly, I think plain white canvases scare me! :)
OIC new service for the timid artist.....
" let us rubbish up your canvas".
No more having to stare blankly at your pristine white canvas.
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kiddin aside- yah pristine white canvas and paper are all scary !!
Your style reminds me a lot of Georgette Chen - I dun mean the way you painted resembles hers but it just kind of came to me when looking at your painting - which is done very beautifully. I love the way you use colors to depict values and all and above all you have captured the essence of the model pretty well too.
:P
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