Portrait of my granddaughter
04-17-2010, 12:06 PM
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Those are beautiful!
I do portraits too, though I've never worked with prismacolour pencils. I've done pastel pencil, though, and I LOVE that medium. Usually I work with watercolour for portraits... but I've never tried tracing a blown up photo, I draw it out first in the size I want and that allows me to use several different photos to make one portrait. I used to take oil painting lessons when I was young (like, 10 years old) but I quit because all they ever had us do was landscapes and that was too boring, lol!
I would love to see some more of your work, if you're willing to post more images.
I do portraits too, though I've never worked with prismacolour pencils. I've done pastel pencil, though, and I LOVE that medium. Usually I work with watercolour for portraits... but I've never tried tracing a blown up photo, I draw it out first in the size I want and that allows me to use several different photos to make one portrait. I used to take oil painting lessons when I was young (like, 10 years old) but I quit because all they ever had us do was landscapes and that was too boring, lol!
I would love to see some more of your work, if you're willing to post more images.
04-17-2010, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Baren*eh*ked_canadian
Those are beautiful!
I do portraits too, though I've never worked with prismacolour pencils. I've done pastel pencil, though, and I LOVE that medium. Usually I work with watercolour for portraits... but I've never tried tracing a blown up photo, I draw it out first in the size I want and that allows me to use several different photos to make one portrait. I used to take oil painting lessons when I was young (like, 10 years old) but I quit because all they ever had us do was landscapes and that was too boring, lol!
I would love to see some more of your work, if you're willing to post more images.
I do portraits too, though I've never worked with prismacolour pencils. I've done pastel pencil, though, and I LOVE that medium. Usually I work with watercolour for portraits... but I've never tried tracing a blown up photo, I draw it out first in the size I want and that allows me to use several different photos to make one portrait. I used to take oil painting lessons when I was young (like, 10 years old) but I quit because all they ever had us do was landscapes and that was too boring, lol!
I would love to see some more of your work, if you're willing to post more images.
The pix I posted of our grandkids are pictures of the photocopies of the originals. I gave my stepdaughter the original of Luann and my stepson the original of Jakob. The copies are all this old granny has now.
04-17-2010, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by raptureready
Originally Posted by Baren*eh*ked_canadian
Those are beautiful!
I do portraits too, though I've never worked with prismacolour pencils. I've done pastel pencil, though, and I LOVE that medium. Usually I work with watercolour for portraits... but I've never tried tracing a blown up photo, I draw it out first in the size I want and that allows me to use several different photos to make one portrait. I used to take oil painting lessons when I was young (like, 10 years old) but I quit because all they ever had us do was landscapes and that was too boring, lol!
I would love to see some more of your work, if you're willing to post more images.
I do portraits too, though I've never worked with prismacolour pencils. I've done pastel pencil, though, and I LOVE that medium. Usually I work with watercolour for portraits... but I've never tried tracing a blown up photo, I draw it out first in the size I want and that allows me to use several different photos to make one portrait. I used to take oil painting lessons when I was young (like, 10 years old) but I quit because all they ever had us do was landscapes and that was too boring, lol!
I would love to see some more of your work, if you're willing to post more images.
The pix I posted of our grandkids are pictures of the photocopies of the originals. I gave my stepdaughter the original of Luann and my stepson the original of Jakob. The copies are all this old granny has now.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...3&l=efa71e9001
I haven't done any in a while, quilting has kind of taken over, lol! I wish I had some better quality photos like you have, but unfortunately the technology we had 10 years ago for scanning some of these images in isn't what it is today... and many of the ones in that ablum have been given away. Some of those drawings and paintings were done when I was in high school, lol!
I'll have to remember to get copies of them, but I did portraits of my grandparents in 2001 when they died, each was displayed at their funerals and my mother has one, my aunt has the other. Those ones were done in pastel pencil, and I love how you can see the texture of the paper through the drawing.
04-17-2010, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by raptureready
Thank you all so much for your kind comments. I do really enjoy most forms of art and creativity. Yes, fabric painting counts too. At least I hope it does because there's a lot of beautiful work out there. I've got Indian portraits I did in oil on pigskin--that was rough because you can't use much medium with it because it will bleed and the leather sucks up the paint and dries it almost immediately. I've seen the pencils used on fabric and it's beautiful. I haven't tried it yet though. Post some pix of you work, I'd love to see them. I belong to Illinois Heartland Decorative Artists and we have a HUGE craft show/sale once a year in the Assembly Hall in Champaign. We raise money for local charities such as women's shelters, Crisis Nursery, etc. and also to fund a couple of art scholarships. One of our big money makers each year is a hand painted quilt that we raffle off.
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