“Daniela”
Pastel on sanded paper
OK, the plan was to post small paintings done daily on this blog, but as it turns out sometimes plans have to be changed. I DO paint almost every day, but don’t necessarily finish a small painting each day since I also work on larger pieces. That being the case today, I decided to post something different.
Two weeks ago I had the chance to take a one-day portrait workshop with Alain Picard, a fantastic portrait artist (and great painter in general!). In the past I had painted one painting of a group of people from a photo, and had drawn two figurative scenes from photos with colored pencil, but had never worked with a live model. Well, it’s a lot harder than you would think, and a lot less forgiving than landscapes or still life paintings in that the point is to capture as closely as possible the subject matter, without a lot of artistic license. In other words, you can’t cheat. I really enjoyed the experience, and think my first attempt came out OK (but of course judge that for yourself). And it always helps when you work with a gorgeous subject, which Daniela was!
Julie,
You did an awesome job with this model. I had the pleasure of being in the class with you and am still struggling with portrait studies. You are an inspiration.
Thanks so much! I really enjoyed that class, and hope I can manage to get up the nerve to do more portraits on my own!!!
Way to go Julie, you did a fantastic job for a “first portrait”. I like it alot. I’m sure there will be many more sparkling portrait subjects to come in your artistic future. Thanks for the compliments!
Alain