Friday, February 19, 2010
Progress
Today I worked on the figure - modified the head, added shadow on the neck, and generally cut 'way back on the greenish tint of the body (although that probably doesn't show in these images).
There is this whole problem area: when do you decide that a painting is finished? The answer is that you stop when doing anything more will make the painting worse instead of better. Well, I got to that point today and kept going. Had to wipe out some of the stuff I did to get the body of the model back to a good point. Osborne emphatically agreed that I had reached the stopping point. So the lady now looks like this:
Of course there is quite a bit of stuff to do. Edges to clean up like that strange bump on her hip, etc. The blue at the top should go lighter, with maybe an intermediate blue layer as well. And I've got to check out her glowing right thigh - I hadn't noticed that on the painting, and hope it is an artifact of the photo. But in any case, I don't need the model to do those final corrections and will handle them on my own time.
We still have the model for two more weeks, so I should be able to move to a new position, and try for a second (smaller) painting of her from a different angle. We'll see.
There is this whole problem area: when do you decide that a painting is finished? The answer is that you stop when doing anything more will make the painting worse instead of better. Well, I got to that point today and kept going. Had to wipe out some of the stuff I did to get the body of the model back to a good point. Osborne emphatically agreed that I had reached the stopping point. So the lady now looks like this:
Of course there is quite a bit of stuff to do. Edges to clean up like that strange bump on her hip, etc. The blue at the top should go lighter, with maybe an intermediate blue layer as well. And I've got to check out her glowing right thigh - I hadn't noticed that on the painting, and hope it is an artifact of the photo. But in any case, I don't need the model to do those final corrections and will handle them on my own time.
We still have the model for two more weeks, so I should be able to move to a new position, and try for a second (smaller) painting of her from a different angle. We'll see.
