Thursday, September 2, 2010

Progress


"Brand New" a work in progress
watercolor 10 x 14

     Made some progress on this today. I think the precious-newborn side of this painting is winning out. Don't you think?

     Now things will start moving a little more quickly on this painting. I wanted to be sure that I had the proportions right in the beginning, now I just need to strengthen the color and values and deal with the background.

     I really am starting to like this painting. I think the hand in front of his face is so sweet. The reference photo is of my youngest son when he was about four days old. I took HUNDREDS (and I mean that literally) of photos of him in that first week, knowing that he'd outgrow that newborn stage so fast. And I'm really glad I did. :)

11 comments:

  1. Beautiful, such a hard subject to paint, but yet you make it look easy. I can' wait to see it finished

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  2. I love how the subjects in your paintings are so delicate, yet full of dimension. It's amazing to me that you can get that out of just a few colors. Colored Pencil seems to take me forever to achieve some dimension.

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  3. Definitely, the precious baby is there. So beautiful! And who can resist those little tiny baby fingers. I was just looking at my little guys hand print the other day. He's 17 mos now and it's amazing how big his hand is compared to his 2 month hand print. Can't wait to see this one finished:)

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  4. You are incredible. Can't wait to see the finished product!!

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  5. Crystal, you have such an amazing eye for proportion, everything!

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  6. Its going to be a wonderful painting,Crystal.I have no doubts about it!And I envy you because you have such cute little model inside your own home! you would never go through 'What to paint next?' phase!....

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  7. This is gorgeous! The skin tones are so perfect for a newborn. I love his little screwed up face!
    It must be so nice to have such an array of beautiful paintings to keep. So much nicer that photograhs :0)

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  8. Yep! It's bang on. Can't wait to see it done ; )

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  9. I just love to see your baby paintings! You can really capture them.

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  10. Yep. You are right there with it Crystal. Great job.

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