Another Pin Up

One more for good measure.  Pin ups seem to be my thing right now.  That's ok, I guess I could be painting worse things.  I did this one a little different than the others.  I put on all my shadows first, then went over with the body of color.  It seems have had an interesting effect.  For the most part it has worked, but I might still have to refine my technique.

At any rate, I had fun painting it.  Hope you have fun viewing it.  Enjoy!

A Departure From Birds and Flowers (Pin Up Girl)

 I am trying to paint much more loosely.  On this painting I got the entire sheet wet, blocked in some basic colors, then went back to put in details.

You can see that the paper is really warped.  I used some student grade paper that I had gotten for my kids.  I don't know why I did that, but I did.  I quickly realized my mistake.  I couldn't control the water at all.  Everything flowed everywhere.  I think you can see what colors held the most weight on this paper.  I was hoping to have a nice blue background, but when I went to block in some red and grey, BAMMO, back runs.  Oh well, that's ok.

Letting things dry, I went back and, using very little water, started to put in some details and shading.  This is what I came up with.  I got some good, and some bad.  I think its a good effort, but you decide for yourself.

Thank you and enjoy.

Pin-up Girl

Well, I wanted to get a quick painting in yesterday during lunch, and decided to paint a pinup girl.  As you can see, some good and some bad came out of it.    In general, I think its a pretty good painting.

I think I like her legs best of all.  There is some color to them, but they didn't get too yellow, or too red.  And the shadowing worked out pretty well.  Her stomach is ok, but her arms are way to yellow, and probably her face too.  Actually I had a lot of trouble with her nose, and mouth.

Her left palm is facing the viewer and also up.  I dind't quite capture that, and as a result her hand just looks odd.  And talk about odd, what is up with that pinky?  Well, I guess that's why they call it practice.

I thought as I was painting this that the background would show more blue and yellow in it.  As it turned out, it seems all green.  That's not all bad, but could be better.

Well, I had fun, and hope you all enjoy it.