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I grabbed the first yellow in my bucket, which was Winsor and Newton Chrome Yellow Hue. It makes an interesting green with the Ivory black. It is a subtle grayish green that I think will be a nice tone to use further in this painting. It is very warm and my first inclination is to make the face colors a cool. I am going to let this dry and try out some glazes.
Structure wise, I picked up an app called
Handy that is a mobile art tool for artsts. I played with the angle and lighting scheme that closely related to what I was seeing in this and used it to refine my shadows. She is taking a more mature look and I think that has a lot to do with all my inner thoughts about motherhood.
It is almost like she is growing up on my canvas. She is getting wiser and she has a more mature look on the world. I am not sure what she is telling me, but the more I work on her, the more I am making decisions about who she is and who I am, as I discover things about her. After all, no matter what your references are, you are painting a piece of yourself in every painting.
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I had some left over paint and I smeared it on these canvases. My paint was truly at the point that it was use it or let it dry out. So I grabbed some Winsor and Newton Terra Rosa and mixed it in with the Ivory Black and Titanium White and used a couple palette knives to smear more shapes around.
I really like the warmth of these colors against the cool of the Titanium White and Ivory black. There is a story happening in this one. I am not sure what it is, but it is, but it is there, making me think.
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This one is still a little violent and chaotic for me. I don't really have any true ideas what is happening here. Again, the Ivory black and Terra Rosa.
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There is an atmosphere happening here. It is a dark landscape of sorts and I felt the need to leave the center of this one in lighter values. I think some of my looking at mat painters and fantasy landscapes is proving influential.
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I simply deepened the darkest areas with this. I like the separation of light, middle and dark values that this provides. I didn't want to ruin that.
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This is upside down compared to the beginning. I don't know why, but it seemed to want to be this direction. One advantage to painting over old paintings is that some of the original paint is showing through and I am going to allow that to stay for now. This was only a partially painted piece and it was a very simple block in. That allows some interesting shapes.
Because so many of the others do not have much in sharp lines and sharp contrasts, I tried to punch the edges a little more with this and not blend it in.
In closing, I don't know what I am doing. There is no plan. For this series, I like that aspect of it. I like that it is a playground and fun. I don't even care if they turn out any good. I do know that I will probably not buy anymore square canvases because it lends to too many centered compositions.
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