Sunday, June 29, 2014

Summer of Colour week 3 and the Free Art Friday machine rolls on.....

So our colourful summer continues :)  This week's :palette in the Summer of Colo(u)r is Lavender & Grey, with a Smudge, Splash or Pop of Plum:

It's a lovely colour scheme but a bit out of my comfort zone, that's always a good thing though.

Jay had a really good idea for this one, to do a boxer's face in greyscale, and use the purples for bruising and a big black eye, but I couldn't find a reference photo that I thought I could do justice to, so I reverted to the relative safety of "pretty girl"

So here's what I ended up doing:


(the colour-perfect frame was a Poundland find!)

She is based upon this gorgeous photo reference from Paint My Photo, photographer is Alex Lee Johnson :









I love that swipe of blue paint in the original photo but I'm not sure if I prefer my painting with or without it (here's without):


But it's too late now anyway, she's been swiped :D

I'll be donating the finished, framed piece to Free Art Friday Swindon   (if you have time, please click through and check out our photo album 'Art for the big launch drop' - around 150 arty items have already been submitted, it's an amazing selection, I've been overwhelmed with everyone's generosity!!)

Also in the Free Art Friday pot are a few more of my little Day of the Dead canvasses - since last weekend I've tried out a couple more designs of those:


That's me done for this week - see you back here for week 4 of Summer of Colour!

10 comments:

Sharon Fritchman said...

I love your beautiful work of art and the creative inspiration piece you used. I think it looks wonderful with the swipe!!! I love how you used this week's SOC colors!

Virginia said...

Oh Sarah I love what you've done I like with or without it if I'm honest!

Joanna said...

Love it all (particularly with the plummy swipe)!

Great use of this week's SOC colour combo :)

xxx

Unknown said...

I like the swipe! She looks good in swipes! :)

Unknown said...

I like the plum swipe! I also like it without. :D Great job and a perfect frame for it!

gma said...

These SOC certainly are appropriate for your painting. Nice work.

TwinkleToes2day said...

I love what you did with the swipe, better than the original and I like your 'without' piece too. You did the face beautifully :D

Carmen said...

I think the swipe is brilliant - love her without but she is just so striking with it.

Caz said...

This is great! And well done on the purple frame find!

aussie aNNie said...

LOVE this amazing work of art, gosh wish I could do this....I find your blog and creations so inspirational so I have joined as a new follower.xxx.aNNie ♥

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