Art dump of my work from yesterdays Croquis class in Aarhus. I was shocked when my teacher came by, looked at my work over my shoulder, and suddenly bend over it, to smear a paper towel with graphite powder all over it. In my eyes, in that moment, he totally ruined what I was doing. It did create an interesting effect I guess, and in retrospect I get what he was trying to provoke me to do. But it was a hard pill to swallow. I was angry!
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105. A Lesson in Being Free and Messy
Sketch Posted on November 3, 2015 20:44- Comments(0) https://blog.mtfoto.dk/?p=142
104. Master Study
Digital Posted on November 3, 2015 03:15I decided to go for something really hard for today. Todays theme at Sketchdaily was “Master study” more specifially this self portrait made by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. The real painting is of course made in oil. I was not up for learning to use oil paint for real tonight so I went for a digital version.
Finding brushes in PhotoShop that worked for this was a bit of a challenge since I did not want the plastic digital look. I think in the end it worked out – after hours and hours of struggling. I learnt that skin color is not just a pinkish beige. It’s green, grey, blue, pink, red, yellow, and brown – all colors! Here is my version of Louise Élisabeth’s self portrait:
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