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| This is one of those paintings that took no time at all. I
thought I was sitting down to do a nude, but next thing ya know, I painted a
flowing dress and added some wings and WALLA! She's a fairy... or an angel...
or a pixie... something like that. I don't ask questions, I just paint what
wants to emerge. Anyhow, this one is called 'Lifted'. |
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| 1. I didn't intend for her to hold anything more than a wand with a star on the end of it, but stepping back, I saw that she seemed "ready" for something. She looks like my Aunt Regina at this point, not that she dressed like that. |
2. Well she doesn't look like my Aunt now! Not with that disco hairdo. When this little girl came out it made sense to me. I thought, 'Oh good. She's taking her inner child out for a spin!' |
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| 3. Tried to doll up the hair but it felt overboard and I started to notice that no amount of paint was making up for the fact that her head was so high up there, haha. |
4. So......I painted over it in blue and lowered it, made it significantly smaller so I shaved off some of her ample bosom and generally repositioned her from the chest up, new face and all. |
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| 5. Here I define the little girl and I'm really starting to like her here, but it's starting to bug me that her arms are so long while her legs are short. I ignore it but it nags at me while I work on other things, adding faint pink flowers to the woman's hair/hat. |
6. I paint swirls around them to convey motion, and I use some black to make them lift off the page more. |
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| 7. Well I can't take the little girl's legs in proportion to her arms, so I "fix" them by painting over in blue then extending them along with the skirt, which is now green. Not really an executive decision, rather the work of a dirty brush, haha. But I like it, it adds 'body'. The position of her foot bugs me though, so I tweak it.... |
8. There. That's it. I really like it now :) Click on her :) |
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