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Author: Pauline_Adair, Contributing Editor
 | Just getting a feel for the lights now, finding where the light falls on her body from the one light source. All those planes must be facing the light to create the illusion. |
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The shadows need warming up.....I'm putting a couple of warm skin tones in over the purple, still working loosely. |
| I call them 'hot spots'....where I see the warmest of the skin colours.... in the creases, on the elbows, lips, cheeks. Nothing is set in concrete at this stage.... I'm still feeling my way around.....tentatively!
Sophie has red hair.... so while I have the red in my hand....in that goes too! I'm strongly leaning toward a dark background. |  |
 | Yes.... I've made the decision to go really dark in the background, as Sophie is obviously sleeping so a night scene seems to make sense..... it is all part of the story. |
| I have this vision in my mind of a kind of glow behind Sophie....I need to make it richer. As an experiment I'll try to bring it to life with a bright orange over top of the dark purple. The first few strokes are a bit of a shock so I'll just leave that there for a while and do some work on the foreground...tucking the background away into the recesses of my mind for now!
Just as I put some of the foreground colour into the skin, I need to also put some of the skin colour into the sheets. This will unify the whole painting. |  |
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