Well, I made HUGE progress today! I am super excited that I got a nice base coat for the whole figure. I do not like how the chest varies so much in areas of deep amaranth to dull cerise. Also, I realized how long dab painting takes, so I took a short - cut and used extremely broad brushstrokes on the right arm. I plan on going back over that area with dabs to add speckles of color to continue with the same soft variations in value and tone which add an interesting aspect of abstraction to the rest of the painting. I am trying to go over all of the muted areas of light mauve with more punch - y and ruby - ish tones. I definitely also need to resolve the shadows because I do not believe they are dark enough to add an effective contrast to the highlights. I began to work on an easel this class, rather than hunching over the table, and I am extremely glad with this decision. I also took more time to look at my reference image because I regretted not doing so during the last class. Coach Hall and I had a brief discussion as to what i am going to do for the bra. He suggested keeping in mind a technique which would retain a quality of flatness, such as my plan to mount a paper with the painted bra onto this piece. He also suggested considering exploring the use of the same fabric of the actual bra. I did some quick googling, and I think it would be feasible to buy iridescent taffeta fabric. I think that I need to make a decision as to how central I want for the necklaces and whatever writing I end up using to be. I will brainstorm over the weekend, and we'll see how it goes from there.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
March 2021
Categories |