So here is Beauty so far, the first colour 'washes' from a few days ago, and then yesterday's effort, working back into her hair, adding more colour to her and the beast. More to do, and I can't wait too long, so I will be busy tomorrow with it. It's quite different to previous work, but I do like it.
The paint runs ARE intentional...I wanted to try something a little looser, I wanted to let it find its own way a little rather than carefully orchestrating everything.
However, I did decide that one running down the middle was a little too dominant and distracting...so I lightened it off a little.
Taken with flash above, and without, below. The truth (as is so often the case!) lies somewhere between. I've extended Beauty's hair, and worked colour into her and the beast. I think I may need to darken their features a little to make them stand out, they're getting a little lost in the colour. The trees on the horizon definitely need to be better defined. I'm a little worried I might have to do the same with the text, but I really DON'T want to have to go to all that trouble if I can help it.
I still like the poem.
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Christina - this is a stunning piece. For me, the subject and the approach materially are both extremely satisfying. Thanks for the progress report. Happy season shift!
Love to see your work in progress. I think you should work in a way that you find satisfying and enjoy the most. If detailing each layer is it then continue that way. Hugs! deb
It is so great that you let us be part of the progress of this wonderful piece! And all the what-if's, the carefully treading forward in the process of line and colour...
THANKS! Good luck with all your layers.
She's looking amazing, I really love this! The colours you are using are really great and I do like the paint runs, they work and add to the dual sense of coverlet or hills,folds in cloth or streams on a hillside...
I must read your poem again now, its a powerful piece and I like it too...
It's looking wonderful! Also, it's sort of comforting to find someone else has the same dilemma -- I do the same thing, adding loads of detail at each stage which will always be mostly obscured with the following stage. Like you, I'm always wavering between feeling that I get a better understanding of the piece and the feeling that I am just giving myself a lot of extra work. Ah well... so there are at least a couple of us out there, lost between the layers of paintings!
MIA- as others have said - a stunning work - and thanks for sharing the development process; and of course I love that you have incorporated the poem as textures as well as text. Hope this work finds a good home. Go well. B
such a beautiful piece Christina! love those exquisite points of the ears on your wolf and about the layers I think of traces & palimpsest & how really it's all in the process, loving it even when it frustrates the hell out of you, like any passionate affair... & how long does a work take to make? as long as it needs... that's how it goes... some dream things take years to get right some take seconds and are perfectly formed at the point of delivery... as makers we don't really get a lot of say in that, just have to work 'til it's done!
The greatest of all fears is the fear of being afraid.
Well done - she is a beauty.
Beautiful, really beautiful.
I love the way you chose to dribble the paint for a bit of loosening up, we are so the same that way. I love watching your progress, and I think the finished painting is going to look stunning, its such a interesting concept and tells such a huge story even before you do read the poem, its like a multi dimensional painting that can be seen in so many different ways. I love it
xxx
sheree
It's looking beautiful! x
i like how your text waves into landscape
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