I thought I was going to get a chance to go out. It didn't happen. So I have just been home playing around with some projects I wanted to try. Tonight I finally got a chance to do a paint over. What's a paint over? A paint over is the technique I call when I do face matching and paints over magazine images. I am not a portrait painter. I seem to screw things up most once I add color. My drawing needs work too, but I practice drawing a lot more then I practice coloring.
I took an large face from a magazine I have been holding on to for a very long time, a few months at least. I think i got it from a GQ magazine I got from the library. Once a year the library gives away some magazines to make room for the next year. Ha.. that means I have had these images 5 months!! See how times flies? Anyway my intent was to take the picture.. do the shadows in dark then color over and recreate what I see. I don't use outright flesh tones. So for this image I used Deco Art's Media Line matte medium to adhere face to 140lb wc paper. Then I did my dark areas is Americana Black Tuxedo Acrylic. I mixed my tinting base, dairylide yellow and naphthol red light until I got the flesh tone I wanted. Used cotton ball and black tuxedo to recreate hair and face stubble.
Had fun, wish I had more photos to share. This is my final picture although I think i may tweak it a little more before adding it to a pocket letter. :) I set up 7 more portraits to paint over. We will see how those go and I will post them.
I took an large face from a magazine I have been holding on to for a very long time, a few months at least. I think i got it from a GQ magazine I got from the library. Once a year the library gives away some magazines to make room for the next year. Ha.. that means I have had these images 5 months!! See how times flies? Anyway my intent was to take the picture.. do the shadows in dark then color over and recreate what I see. I don't use outright flesh tones. So for this image I used Deco Art's Media Line matte medium to adhere face to 140lb wc paper. Then I did my dark areas is Americana Black Tuxedo Acrylic. I mixed my tinting base, dairylide yellow and naphthol red light until I got the flesh tone I wanted. Used cotton ball and black tuxedo to recreate hair and face stubble.
Had fun, wish I had more photos to share. This is my final picture although I think i may tweak it a little more before adding it to a pocket letter. :) I set up 7 more portraits to paint over. We will see how those go and I will post them.
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wow that looks so fun & he came out so great. ^5
ReplyDeleteI think you did an awesome job on this!!!! I love it.
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