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Monday, July 03, 2017

A Redheaded Girl




Recently I've been interested in people's faces. Painting them, that is. I did a search of PMP and found some wonderful photos of men, women and young people to use as references and this is my first go. This lovely girl was not a redhead but I felt she should be. In fact I think all women should be a redhead at least once in their lives. I was for about 10 years and I loved every minute.

My approach was to start by adhering bits of tissue paper to my substrate, in this case an 8" x 8" piece of 140# watercolor paper. I wanted to create texture. When all was dry I used a couple of my homemade stamps to stamp most of the surface. I transferred my drawing to my paper, then added pieces of magazine pages to the girl's hair. With my palette in mind I began painting with acrylic paints and this is my result. It turned out the way I had envisioned so I'm pretty satisfied. 
I think for my next project I'm going to do a self portrait. It's something I've never done.


Reference photo courtesy of Neil A. Kingsbury (PMP)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

She is great, I think :)

Billie Crain said...

I almost missed this. Thank you, Cecile!