Friday, May 11, 2007

It's been a while!












In this last month I have not managed to find as much time as I would wish for painting. Fortunately my art classes ensure that I always find a few hours each week and I have been making slow but steady progress on the painting above.

Having completed a lot of work on 'him' I moved to 'her' some weeks ago and was quickly reminded of how difficult it is to match colours. Instead of a nice olive skin tone I ended up with a yellow skin tone, and after correcting this, although she looks much better, the tone is a little pink for my liking, and does not satisfactorily match the skin tones of him.

Do any of you out there have any good strategies for matching colours across a painting like this. It's something that I really could do with learning a little more about.

I have painted in the background in the hope that this would help me judge colours across the painting more effectively; and started working on the hair (his hair needs a lot of toning down still).

When I started this painting the class expressed a mixture of interest and doubt that the design of the painting would work. This week the comments were more about how well the painting was working. So that's good - another few months work and I might be satisfied myself.