The actress (re-work 5)
Acrylic on canvas board 9.5" x 7"
I have split the background into two shapes and lightened the left hand side of it. I have changed the colour of her dress. After all, this is a "painting", a "creation". It is not a copy of something. It has to work "as a whole". Yes, I started with a photograph but that was left alone quite a few re-works ago. It became redundant.
posted by Sheila Vaughan at 10:16 AM
6 Comments:
Hi Sheila,
I love the expression on this face -- so knowing. Great portrait.
XO Barbara
Hi Barbara, well I am re-working this one at the moment so who knows what the expression will be like after that - fed up probably (why can't you leave me alone mrs. painter).
Hey Barbara - I didn't mean you, LOL. I was speaking on behalf of the woman in the painting pretending she was speaking to me !
You are funny. Okay painting -- do your thing -- take over (I'm speaking to the painting.) I'm on a train now speeding through the Ontario landscape. Your former painting is accompanying me.
XO Barbara
I only have a problem with painting from photographs when the painter is trying to replicate it exactly. When it is used as a reference and then taken further and imposed your own will on it, like you have, then it is very pleasing indeed!
David, I agree about the use of photographs. It seems these days that we need to just accept their validity in the whole process. This is the 21st century after all. And isn't satisfying "art" always "interpretation" anyway? What does it matter what we start off with?
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