...And done!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
A Quick Watercolor
I've been doing a few test paintings to work out which color palate I'll be using in the final much larger version. So far this is my favorite...
This was done using watercolors. I also haven't decided whether or not I'm going to use acrylics or oil paints. Decisions decisions.
I've been wanting to do this painting for a number of years. The inspiration behind it comes from a set of oil paintings that have hung over my fathers bed for as long as I can remember. I believe he bought them with my mom long before my younger sister or myself were born. The original oil paintings each feature a little girl from the shoulders up, one with long curly dark hair and an oversized straw sun hat, the other with a messy brown bob. Both looking a bit serious and sad, but with a twinkle in their eyes, painted in a warm buttery earth toned color scheme. I've literally obsessed over them since childhood! There is something about them that just pulls you in, and they are very reminiscent of the artwork and style from the slavery era, I only wish I knew the artist, the paintings are so old the signatures have worn off. Here is a funny little fact, my father doesn't really care too much for the paintings themselves, but keeps them hung because as my sister and I grew up we started to resemble the girls in the paintings. He's convinced that there is some sort of doppelganger/ Dorian Gray madness going on, and now refuses to take them down. Fantastic right! Anywho, I've been dying to repaint them in a style all my own, it just feels right in a strange way, like its all come full circle. Once I finalize the colors i'll be using for the girl in the hat, i'll repeat the process with the second girl, then its off to my wood guy for some lovely panels to paint.
Is it weird this project is making me nervous? Probably due to the lifetime of anticipation, I just hope that I can do the originals and the images in my head justice.
deep breaths Ren, deep breaths.
This was done using watercolors. I also haven't decided whether or not I'm going to use acrylics or oil paints. Decisions decisions.
I've been wanting to do this painting for a number of years. The inspiration behind it comes from a set of oil paintings that have hung over my fathers bed for as long as I can remember. I believe he bought them with my mom long before my younger sister or myself were born. The original oil paintings each feature a little girl from the shoulders up, one with long curly dark hair and an oversized straw sun hat, the other with a messy brown bob. Both looking a bit serious and sad, but with a twinkle in their eyes, painted in a warm buttery earth toned color scheme. I've literally obsessed over them since childhood! There is something about them that just pulls you in, and they are very reminiscent of the artwork and style from the slavery era, I only wish I knew the artist, the paintings are so old the signatures have worn off. Here is a funny little fact, my father doesn't really care too much for the paintings themselves, but keeps them hung because as my sister and I grew up we started to resemble the girls in the paintings. He's convinced that there is some sort of doppelganger/ Dorian Gray madness going on, and now refuses to take them down. Fantastic right! Anywho, I've been dying to repaint them in a style all my own, it just feels right in a strange way, like its all come full circle. Once I finalize the colors i'll be using for the girl in the hat, i'll repeat the process with the second girl, then its off to my wood guy for some lovely panels to paint.
Is it weird this project is making me nervous? Probably due to the lifetime of anticipation, I just hope that I can do the originals and the images in my head justice.
deep breaths Ren, deep breaths.
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