Hi! this week I am taking you to a wonderful blog spot called How to Pastel. If you are not familiar, it is run by a wonderful artist, Gail Sibley. She asked me to be the guest blogger this month so I took a blog post from a few weeks ago about painting skin tones and...
In the very beginning of designing this painting I asked myself- “What is most important?” And was easy to pick her eye. In most portraits the eyes can easily be seen as the most important element and quite often I set up a “dominant” eye. With...
Hang in there everyone! Glad you could join me again this week from containment. I sincerely hope that talking about painting will keep your mind off any worries for a few minutes and we can chat about beauty and art. So continuing from last week, as this painting...
“What color should I use for skin?” I get asked this question all of the time. Last week I talked about how low-chroma colors can serve you well when thinking about painting people. This week I want to think about the opposite. How high-chroma color can...
“Pink” is just a name for a broad category of colors. So last week I talked about how the appearance of a color can be deceiving. Colors shift and take on the properties of light and shadow. In the photo above I have some nice pink pastel sticks selected....
