Day 11 of 30 Paintings in 30 days: Everglades tree (from my own photo) - finally a landscape, which I don't do often. It is watercolors on 140 lb. Saunders Waterford watercolor paper (15x11 inches)
Everglades tree - watercolor on watercolor paper (15x11 inches)
Day 10 of 30 paintings in 30 days: Seascape in watercolors on watercolor paper (15x11 inches)
I went the tight route with this one and not too satisfied with it, but hey, it's my first seascape...now to summon up the courage to try a wet-in-wet seascape...yikes! There's always chinese white or gouache I guess...
Seascape - watercolor on watercolor paper (15x11 inches)
So today I went with a watercolor. It is the entrance of a little hotel in South Beach, from I photo I took back in 2006 or so. Those greens gave me some trouble. It's been a while since I've done any foliage in watercolors, oh, but I had fun (and stress-watercolor can be stressful).
I have no idea what I'll paint tomorrow but probably another watercolor...we'll see...
South Beach hotel - watercolor on watercolor paper (11x15 inches)
So here we are on day 8 and another portrait it is. This time it's a portrait of my gorgeous daughter, Alanna, when she was one year old. This was at the Spring Festival at her daycare when she was wearing her spring hat.
I had a little trouble with this one, namely, the eyes are a little too high on the face which makes her look a little older. But overall I'm quite satisfied with it. Again it is on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches). If I frame it, I may crop the bottom a little.
Alanna - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches)
Day 7 of 30 paintings in 30 days - Nocita from a PMP photo - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper...Hmmm...
Not too happy with this one. I think I went too detailed with her scarf and it overpowers her...I want to thank Pat Isaac for her recommendation to tone down the whites in her scarf. I think it helped. I like it much better now ;) See before and after below.
BEFORE: Nocita - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches)
AFTER: Nocita - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches)
So here it is another oil pastel portrait of a little girl on Canson Mi-Teintes (9x12 inches). Again from the site PMP. I think I captured her likeness but I painted her much older....I painted her eyes too high on the face and so she looks older. But overall I'm happy with her skintones and hair.
I did minimize/blend some of the white highlights in her shirt (not shown here) because I think they were calling too much attention.
Little girl - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches)
So I went with another portrait in oil pastels on Canson Mi-Teintes (9x12 inches). A black teen girl with gorgeous skintones from a PMP photo again. I could see all sorts of colors in her skin which excited me but was difficult to capture...even harder to capture on photo...sigh!
Colors are a little bit less muted especially those oranges in her cheeks but oh so hard to correct. Her face is also a bit more elongated in the painting.
Teen girl - oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches)
And here comes another portrait again from the website PMP. Another girl portrait in oil pastels on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x10 inches - cropped).
I had a hard time with this one since the source photo clearly showed green reflections from her hat into her skin. I also drew it very small on the paper and ended up using some oil-based colored pencils for some of her tiny facial features. Oh well, on to the next one!
Girl with a hat - Oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes (9x10 inches cropped)
And here comes another portrait again from the website PMP (thanks a lot to Viacheslav for his amazing photos). Another girl portrait in oil pastels on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches)
Notes: It's very hard to photograph portraits because first of all the camera lens deforms the face, camera doesn't capture all subtle shade changes, my camera oversaturates pictures.
Also her neck is long as in the Mannerism style.
Classical girl - Oil pastel in Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches)
This is my painting for day 2 of Leslie Saeta's 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. Here is another portrait in oil pastels--a flower girl--based on a photo by Alina the website PMP (http://www.paintmyphoto.ning.com). It is 9x12 inches on cream Canson Mi-Teintes paper. Note that colors are a bit less saturated in real life (particularly her lips).
Flower girl - Oil pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper (9x12 inches)
