Warm & Cool.

[Journeyman]

Hope you will give a warm welcome to this cool model


Oil on Canvas 10"x12"


Dave

[!becca]

Dave, The warmest of welcomes...She is beautiful..Love what you have done here, the background is lovely as the model.....the temps look right to me as well..it is just too cool! Thanks for sharing.

[Biblioscape]

Very nice subtle variations in the skin tones! But it would make the face "turn" and look more dimensional if you just soften the edge of the face a little where it touches the background. Beautiful portrait!

[Journeyman]

Hi Becca, she is a local art student who sat for us during the summer brake before going back to university. I’m afraid I fiddled with it to much when I got it home and lost a lot of the feeling trying to smooth the face and some how also aged her

Thanks for the critique Biblioscape, The background was originally light so the face edge was not so defined, that was before I started fiddling. Apart from repainting the background is there some way of softening that edge and still keep the feeling of smooth skin?

Dave

[dustonpaper]

Good work Dave .

[!becca]

Dave, thanks for the background about your painting...she does look beautiful here, though, I understand too how I feel at times after working with a painting more than I wished I had.

[bethanyt]

This is a really wonderful portrait painting Dave!
Don't forget to show it over in Portraits as well!

[carolkay]

This painting has a feeling of softness, and introspection Dave - great goin.

[Journeyman]

Thanks for looking in Sascha.
In lots of ways I like to experiment with these paintings Becca and don’t really mind if they turn out badly as long as I learn something from them.
Hi Bethany, I posted it more as a joke than anything as I had replied to another thread on this forum with the same title
Cheers Carol, thanks for looking in.

Dave

[Gigalot]

Really nice painting, Dave! I think neck is slightly wide, but face and background looks gorgeous!

Alex

[!becca]

In lots of ways I like to experiment with these paintings Becca and don’t really mind if they turn out badly as long as I learn something from them.

this is truely the right approach..at least it is mine, I think mine are all experiments...with varying degrees of success...if that element weren't there, I wouldn't be so tempted to paint them.

[framan]

Very nicely done! Warm welcome to a cool model LOL, great title!! I really like this painting

[Journeyman]

Hi Alex, thinking warm and cool helps with the colour but as you point out does nothing for the drawing

Yes if I ever managed to paint something I was satisfied with I would probably give up Becca, at the moment it looks like I’ll be painting for a while

Thanks Greg, I think what people like about this painting is the lovely model.

Thank you all for looking in, Dave

[Ron Francis]

Originally Posted by Journeyman

In lots of ways I like to experiment with these paintings Becca and don’t really mind if they turn out badly as long as I learn something from them.

I wish I was less tentative sometimes.

I posted it more as a joke than anything as I had replied to another thread on this forum with the same title

The title sucked me in
It would have been interesting to see the original before you adjusted it.
I think you did a good job regardless.

[sidbledsoe]

No problem, just say she is a preraphaelite babe, they had some necks that were thicker and longer that hers
I like the 10YR-5-7 highlight passages next to the 2.5 RP-2-3 shades!