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A back, acrylic

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Quite like backs at the moment so did a stock search for 'back' and found this great photo by ~EyeStocker - [link]

Watched a couple of videos on blending acrylics and made a visit to Hobbycraft to buy some things: slow drying medium and flow improver. Trying out the flow improver on this one, mixing two pigments on the palette, painting them side by side then mixing them on the painting with a clean brush. Mixed results here [pun! :D], but really like what flow improver does to the paint so the purchase gets two thumbs up.

The black of the hair is just cadmium red, cadmium yellow and Winsor blue; all those stories about primary colours turned out to be true. The skin is mainly Naples yellow, cadmium red, titanium white and a bit of Winsor blue to desaturate. Bit of an argument with this woman's backside and where it should end - I gave in and repainted, though you can still see the original through the paint. The splodge on the right is where I dropped the cap from my Burnt umber onto the page. Some sort of lesson in there I think.

This is a photo, not a scan but I'm going to stick the scan in the scrapbook to compare. The trouble with the scanner is that it illuminates the page with a very strong white light that penetrates the paint and brings out too much underlying detail. That's effectively the process by which paintings achieve luminescence and the reason that the Impressionists gessoed their canvas white, but with the scanner there really is too much white. The photo gives a much better representation of how the painting looks in daylight, which is the light source I used.
Image size
1742x1176px 330.62 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon DIGITAL IXUS 100 IS
Shutter Speed
1/636 second
Aperture
F/5.8
Focal Length
18 mm
ISO Speed
80
Date Taken
Jun 7, 2013, 4:44:31 PM
Sensor Size
2mm
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ahojoshi's avatar
I'm terrible at taking photos of my canvases. I think there is some serious skill involved in it, and you sir, you have it. I also like the painting itself, the tones and blendyness and naturally the pose. :)