From the Heart e-course, this week is all about color. Building up a color palette based on Master's painting. This palette was made up of a warm and cool of each primary, raw umber, and white. In the lesson, we used a Sargent painting.
Using a blending app or blending in Photoshop we took our ink sketch from the previous week and blended it with a discarded painting of Pauline. This was used as an inspiration of how to develop a different way of seeing and using color in a portrait.
Berthe Morisot pastel. Pauline introduced us to this marvelous impressionistic artist. Because being a woman she was less known than her contemporaries like Monet. She is an expert draughtsman. Worth looking at and learning from her work which has a very contemporary feel. Because she was a woman, her death certificate stated no profession. She painted over 800 paintings.
Using a photograph of Berthe we used pastels to make a portrait. I had 2 small sets of pastels and box of pastel pencils stowed away because never felt I connected with this media. But I took the dive, we are on a learning experience!
Cadmium yellow- lemon yellow - cadmium red - alizarin crimson - ultramarine blue- Prussian blue -raw umber - white. I added a second cool blue to the palette, a primary blue.
Various mixes
I preferred the Prussian blue over the more turquoise blue
Using a blending app or blending in Photoshop we took our ink sketch from the previous week and blended it with a discarded painting of Pauline. This was used as an inspiration of how to develop a different way of seeing and using color in a portrait.
Composite using Photoshop
My Version
10 x 13.75 "
Oils + cold wax
Still too timid!
Berthe Morisot pastel. Pauline introduced us to this marvelous impressionistic artist. Because being a woman she was less known than her contemporaries like Monet. She is an expert draughtsman. Worth looking at and learning from her work which has a very contemporary feel. Because she was a woman, her death certificate stated no profession. She painted over 800 paintings.
Using a photograph of Berthe we used pastels to make a portrait. I had 2 small sets of pastels and box of pastel pencils stowed away because never felt I connected with this media. But I took the dive, we are on a learning experience!
Pastel Study
Berthe Morisot
9 x 12 "
Tinted Canson Paper
Pauline suggested that I break up the right white line
Revised
9 x 12 "
Tinted Canson Paper
More color
9 x 12 "
Tinted Canson Paper
A Berthe oil study without a drawing. Another exercise to dive in! This time only using 3 primary colors; cadmium yellow, cadmium red, and ultramarine blue, along with raw umber and white. Was way out of my comfort zone! Mainly used a palette knife.
My palette oils + cold wax
Mixed a grey
First layers
Oils on paper
14 x 14 "
WIP
Oils on paper
14 x 14 "
Second Layer
Lots to fix here
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