Where it all begins…
I know I haven’t been posting for a while well I have been kind of busy with school and everything……
anyway recently I have been working a new painting La merveille and here are some photos, the painting isn’t done yet ( I m hoping to finish it soon) and as usual all comment are welcome 
ok I was requested about three weeks ago to do a tutorial on painting with acrylic. Well I m not qualified to give a tutorial but i am going to try to make it easy to follow.
First you need a picture of yourself, because with your picture you are more likely not to be upset if the result doest look 100% like the picture. You don’t have to be embarrassed by the result because you wont need to show it to anyone if you don’t want to. There’s no pressure; you can have fun painting yourself in whatever mood or style you like – the end result is for you alone.
What you need to do this:
Support
canvas size A3 size
Brushes
bristle or taklon sizes 2 – 6 flat. filbert or round
fine taklon round pointed liner
Other materials.
Carbon paper A4 size (black, non smudging)
HB Pencil / Fine point Biro
Fixative spray
Masking tape
and acrylic paint.
1. choosing the photo
Using a picture is not cheating, it improves your chances of making the painting a success. you can use the carbon paper to trace it off. Use a sharp HB pencil or fine ball point pen to trace around the the significant structural and shadow lines if the photo. Pay attention to the pupil, corners of the eyes, nostrils, corners of the mouth and the turning edges. (where light and shadow meet.)
2. Redrawing with paint
follow the traced image to outline the essential element of your picture.
3. Starting to colour
Start by mixing the darkest dark and matching it to your picture. then fill the darkest areas first – carefully ensure that the edges of the shapes accurately match the edge of the picture.
4. from mid tines to completion
now concentrate on copying shapes, not features – paint the coloured shapes that make up the cheek or the chin or the nose – don’t think that you are painting a nose or a chin or the lips. Continue painting by progressively working toward the lighter tones and highlights. check that the darks are dark enough and you are finished.
5. Finished portrait
I got your emails (so thanks you for that) and since most of you guys asked the same thing so here are your answers. Ok in the challenge (game) in my early post (my first 2010 portrait) i had to choose an image of someone that I m not used to see everyday, so I chose a pic of one of my friend, and to make things a bit harder I was allowed to look at the picture for only 5 minutes, but could use them however I want and the portrait had to be done in an hour and a half.
@sophie33 I m sorry I can’t put the original picture up, because I m not allowed to.
Well got bored today and a friend of mine gave me a challenge to test how good my memory is. I had to paint or draw a portrait from a picture and was only allowed to look at the picture 5 times! So I did my best and well the drawing doesn’t look like the original picture but yh it doesn’t look so bad!
ok here are the pictures from my women study. there are three painting, my grandma, my mum and my sister.
1. Grandma
2. My mum
3. My sister
Hey guys! well now that the festive season is over its time to get back to work! …:)
Well i worked last year on a project about women in today’s society, and actually found out that women deal with a lot of stuff and are way stronger emotionally (and physically) than men. I mean they can deal with heaps of stuff that men can’t, (I m not talking about the obvious) and I m talking from personal experience, my mum pretty much raised me on her own and same with her mother (my grandma) and also my sister, she is raising her beautiful daughter on her own and they all have and still doing a great job! only few man can deal with what they deal with on a daily basis…
So with all the information I gathered, I painted three portraits, one of my mum, my grandma and my sister (I will put up the pics later)
Hey guys, Sorry I haven’t put up anything for like 3 weeks, I have been sick and my net was disconected and I upgraded my os to windows 7 (excited about that). So i downloaded the wordpress app on my phone which I m using bcz I didn’t want to let you guys down..again… So cya soon I promiss
And have a very merry Xmas and a happy new year cya in 2010!
Finally got a camera and took better pictures of Benjamin’s painting, it doesn’t look that different, but yh there it is
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