Having asked in last week’s blog for any ideas for a title for this painting, someone has come back with the brilliant title of the ‘Daily Diva Dash’. Out of the window went all my romantic ideas of the wedding ring and the pros and cons for the viewer of a possible affair in this work. Instead, the daily task of looking your best and I think there could be a series of paintings here (if I can persuade my model to pose yet again for me!). So thank you WyzappleGal on Twitter for the clever title. The colour is not completely accurate yet via the photo I have put up and I apologise for this. The table cloth is a muted pale green and I shall eventually put some white polka dots on it ….or not, depending on my mood at the time of painting haha. I keep making the background darker and still think it could be darker still, but will wait a few days to review it. I use linseed oil with this, adding it to the oil paint so that I get a hopefully, light glaze. Glazes are brilliant as you still see the original paint…
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After struggling so hard with my last painting (‘Envy’ see previous Blog) because of no defined light source, I am really enjoying this new work. Very early days yet, but I have a good feeling about it. I was really pleased with the composition of ‘Envy’ and the end result worked, but this painting feels so easy in comparison. So….my studio is relatively small, and is also where I live, so am mostly confined to photographs to work from. In an ideal world, I would always work from life, but this is just not possible at the moment (I need a gallery to take me on lol) so photos rule for now. I teach life drawing locally, and asked one of my models to come and pose for me in a series of poses that I set up and this is the result of one of them. I shall emphasise the lights and darks more as I go on – again Caravaggio comes to mind here – and I have put more red into the model’s top to bring in an element of colour interest. As yet this work is untitled, and I would welcome help here if anyone has…
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