Blodeuwedd Finished

The finished painting of Blodeuwedd. To be honest I'm not quite sure what I think of this one.

On the technical side yeh I'm mostly happy with her, one of her arms is a bit funny but other than that technically I did well enough. Her face is looking good and the whole leaf/ hair printing random-ness in the background turned out really well, I'm really happy with how it merges with the white of the background. It's a useful technique and I'll definitely use it again.

On the other hand I'm just not...interested in her.

I think this is mostly her actual character design, it's very safe and very traditional fantasy. I really wish I'd made the owl aspect of her more than just a mask. I think I could have done far better with more time actually thinking one her design.

It's also partly the colours. I think I made a big mistake at the start trying to accurately get the colours of each flower and the tawny owl, I think I should have focused on having colours that worked together more and just let some of the flowers be slightly off....but I'm also unconfident in painting flowers, I don't know if I could handle risking people mistaking them just because I did them in slightly the wrong colours.

Part of it might also be a stylistic choice, she's just simply not in the style I like. Maybe the whole think would be more to my tastes if it was paler in colour, it's very mid-tones.

I also had serious problems removing her from the board, paint had leaked underneath and stuck the paper down. I've done a whole pile of tape tests so hopefully in the future it won't happen again.

People will probably really like this one...that keeps happening to the ones I don't like.