Sunday, 19 November 2017

A Light In The Dark


Well...that's it done, that's my painting finished. :)
There's things I like about it and things I wasn't able to fix but I learned a lot from doing it...including don't spend so much time on one painting you get bored. 

I added some more gold to the crown and green beads in different arias of her dress, I couldn't find another colour that worked, and then mostly just pottered around playing with tiny details.
Since I've been working on this for so long the gum tape holding it down was a nightmare to remove and tore up the paper underneath pretty badly but at least that will all be hidden when I frame it, but it took a few hours to get off.


I then spent far too long trying to take a photo where the gold shone but the arias of thick indigo in the background didn't reflect the light, though I still had to edit the best picture in photoshop to get it to work. 
I think I've found one of the troublesome things about working with metallics though, I used my flash for this photo which made all the gold glow in one go where in real life only some arias will shine at one time which makes this end image so much yellower than it would be in real life.
With so much of the painting being reflective it probably wouldn't be possible to scan in but at the same time I'm not sure if I got a good enough photo of it.

So my next project will be a rainbow forest commission, I'm also currently doing a little week long black and white photo challenge, I'll post them all up here when I'm done.

Sorry I didn't post yesterday, I've been pretty ill.

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