tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53215317579284248922024-03-05T15:08:58.386-08:00LyneartBlogAlison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-19493711985309047182023-10-29T13:35:00.000-07:002023-10-29T13:35:08.608-07:00THIS ONE or THAT ONE....Let's talk about colorful grays<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2VB2SttgRG_xmk6kwuKeIETjTllBGWBA1RB9mgWrpo8iFYkpXLsZPu0T_wLn1yCcvrKi1BJ7Vi8v2_YpQu-Ygxu9BkOYHw4vb24NSMdg205HH8b6k_vKf3u8oNTWO2i_ZaZUNfeqn8TcmmOPzp_srvQ3GeSTqAvpdPLp4raJPeW8bzA6gWXYEkpNlw/s1440/BlogStreetTorT1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="1440" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2VB2SttgRG_xmk6kwuKeIETjTllBGWBA1RB9mgWrpo8iFYkpXLsZPu0T_wLn1yCcvrKi1BJ7Vi8v2_YpQu-Ygxu9BkOYHw4vb24NSMdg205HH8b6k_vKf3u8oNTWO2i_ZaZUNfeqn8TcmmOPzp_srvQ3GeSTqAvpdPLp4raJPeW8bzA6gWXYEkpNlw/s320/BlogStreetTorT1.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These
two bitty sketches are preliminary work to see if I want to do a full
11x14 inch painting of the source photo.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWjqIILndrxZFvSWGu9e58r7sRCrG-D_-rHNpmYfiu34n1J1w8zr9LV9CwEaHN6wx_Q63KgMP3uRis0UoW8moyrdBAnz31o5619IoIugG2gJzHmzjWG_5kvI5l631oo_WoRhWLPxrVlW4EC2ygTXNpaO8OUJww-JAHYGzLkT5aBg5DVvZZo3emLwBKUg/s1440/BlogStreetTorT2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="1440" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWjqIILndrxZFvSWGu9e58r7sRCrG-D_-rHNpmYfiu34n1J1w8zr9LV9CwEaHN6wx_Q63KgMP3uRis0UoW8moyrdBAnz31o5619IoIugG2gJzHmzjWG_5kvI5l631oo_WoRhWLPxrVlW4EC2ygTXNpaO8OUJww-JAHYGzLkT5aBg5DVvZZo3emLwBKUg/s320/BlogStreetTorT2.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
started out layering in an acrylic wash of hansa yellow over both my
5x7 canvas boards. On THIS ONE I grabbed a couple of my used paint
palettes and lightly daubed on brush strokes of mixed
colors.....mingling warm and cool colours for a grayed effect. I
didn't go too dark in value so's I could use brighter colors in the
shadows. On THAT ONE I layered in a medium red and a pthalo blue
glaze in varying values over the hansa yellow to make an optical
gray, going a tad darker in value to allow for more colourful
“bounce” lights.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWBKT94RV0U4BuNW_bdDFjqJa0aqOrYkpetIfNKweEywQPE5R8sC4XRTLKHd13DUPQg4nAuG4e074KLzWnQBICrKIgyg6FNJxTXH_EBK6dg15jCI_N0J3yGdBqGxNdWPBEsxih_xs3-cZr_FJPlDPZ0-CRvoOWWrIKBQ2gW6XVg4L0pp6HbinxQHRPYw/s1440/BlogStreetTorT3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="1440" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWBKT94RV0U4BuNW_bdDFjqJa0aqOrYkpetIfNKweEywQPE5R8sC4XRTLKHd13DUPQg4nAuG4e074KLzWnQBICrKIgyg6FNJxTXH_EBK6dg15jCI_N0J3yGdBqGxNdWPBEsxih_xs3-cZr_FJPlDPZ0-CRvoOWWrIKBQ2gW6XVg4L0pp6HbinxQHRPYw/s320/BlogStreetTorT3.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After
this dried, I went over both sketches with more opaque colours to see
how far I could push the backlit effect.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR9sX309AH72TuD3_E5rrPq8tlXiP-l06tn-hyC9WOzNoL6qpbIBs7ejSV-BjRXxnJFO0u2Dp9PnBOqIoHxAGyWg2JR9HQq9OxkUriRjT8c0op4dT3yss3xQ6ks60H2F_bqvTVBDp1J0LgJHzCDXUgWpTUPvhSp6tdXs5P6AL_Gnpiz38z72-ehCsjsA/s1440/BlogStreetTorT4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1440" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR9sX309AH72TuD3_E5rrPq8tlXiP-l06tn-hyC9WOzNoL6qpbIBs7ejSV-BjRXxnJFO0u2Dp9PnBOqIoHxAGyWg2JR9HQq9OxkUriRjT8c0op4dT3yss3xQ6ks60H2F_bqvTVBDp1J0LgJHzCDXUgWpTUPvhSp6tdXs5P6AL_Gnpiz38z72-ehCsjsA/s320/BlogStreetTorT4.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> And
finally I rummaged around in my studio and pulled out my trusty,
“highly technical” view finders......i.e. two pieces of
cardboard cut in “L” shapes. I focused in on the people more in
THIS ONE and more on the long view of the scene in THAT ONE. I liked
the highlit awning and backlit shadows of the figures and streetlamp.
The play of grays in the shadows would allow for a lot of interesting
side by side color combinations. </span></span>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Either
way I go.....or even if I do this as a full painting.....it's been a
fun experiment.</span></span></p>
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</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
time around I'm painting some small colour comps to explore the same
subject with low key and high key colours.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I've
posted a couple of 5x7 inches acrylic sketches of a “castle” my
husband Frank Lyne (sculptor) built, by hand, beside a pond on our
farm. Below you can see my painting set up....plastic palettes with
colour wheel mixes.....a colour gamut …...and some source photos I
took. </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90wIHM4-Dux3quzyhfqlNQ9BbqlSe3Ax2Do9Cida0j66D_qNTgzyHyYy1QirDNPwS-qRJIEzR405vMHXG1iRKu3xK9LBubktG-wxEikNUhDH_UVbQ9Pq9pWplV3OhuR-qvTqSKIZ_S8g36OWms6l1vnLqR8qY2nhHroImn3AfanNfoylxT1DUa3BgSA/s1440/BlogCastle2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90wIHM4-Dux3quzyhfqlNQ9BbqlSe3Ax2Do9Cida0j66D_qNTgzyHyYy1QirDNPwS-qRJIEzR405vMHXG1iRKu3xK9LBubktG-wxEikNUhDH_UVbQ9Pq9pWplV3OhuR-qvTqSKIZ_S8g36OWms6l1vnLqR8qY2nhHroImn3AfanNfoylxT1DUa3BgSA/w433-h325/BlogCastle2.jpg" width="433" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span></span>
<p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For
both sketches, I started out with an under painting of
washes....blended using acrylic flow medium. This medium loosens the
acrylic binder so the tube paint acts like a watercolour wash. I then
switched to acrylic glazing medium to put in more precise shadows,
keeping with the maxium to paint shadows transparently when possible.
I try to use only one colour at a time, let that dry then go onto the
next colour, until I get the value of shadow that I want.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finally
I switched to all Golden OPEN paints for the semi-opaque and opaque
lights and high lights. I adore the sparkle that comes from using
warm and cool colours side by side. </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I
painted both scenes keeping in mind that a 4 point spread on the
value chart results in the effect of sunlight....so if an object had
a highlight of 1 then the shadow would be a 4 or darker to get the
effect. Value is necessary to have a cohesive image.....but a wider
range of effects can be had when you also use warm and cool colours
to enhance the image's depth.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
darker or more low key (THIS ONE) version looks closer to the
photograph and more realistic to the value compression by the camera.
I tried to use mostly the darker set of values on the ten point value
chart. </span></span>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
lighter or more high key (THAT ONE) takes a bit more license with
the lights' colours to emphasize the “glow” of the scene. I used
mostly the value scale steps in the ligher register. I tried to add
back colours that the camera had replaced with black, in that
particular exposure. </span></span>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one do you like better??</span></span></p>
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<p><style type="text/css">P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }</style></p>Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-29271271950088305572023-09-23T05:29:00.000-07:002023-09-23T05:29:34.980-07:00NOAPS Art Challenge 2023 or Seeing Red<div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQti5c5zX7n_haT04o1yNw4m5TT6ZsHvVr9yDur18X34uCrzid_HYBQ6vLge-_NKwH2aSKY2phPjBMWbRPpgxSbffEsdQrFtYz_7Xyw9XfRYM9Qyn2ocXUm9LdL2ugkn1TLW6Z8ZlD4OKpaNPEE2QC1Pk2XsPqGjXx4gv2tfaI4v97MzQhfC7Qwnc_Q/s1507/NOAPSLandscape1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1507" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQti5c5zX7n_haT04o1yNw4m5TT6ZsHvVr9yDur18X34uCrzid_HYBQ6vLge-_NKwH2aSKY2phPjBMWbRPpgxSbffEsdQrFtYz_7Xyw9XfRYM9Qyn2ocXUm9LdL2ugkn1TLW6Z8ZlD4OKpaNPEE2QC1Pk2XsPqGjXx4gv2tfaI4v97MzQhfC7Qwnc_Q/s320/NOAPSLandscape1.jpg" width="229" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">NOAPS Art Challenge 2023</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Alison Davis Lyne</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><br /></div><div><div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> <br /><span style="font-family: arial;">This blog post features a small colour sketch I did for a #NOAPSARTCHALLENGE prompt. The reference photo was in color and featured foreground trees and background lake and mountains. <br /><br />Of course me being me, I had to make changes……so I faded and cooled the background a bit, changed the size of the background trees and lightened the colors and faded them a bit on the two trees on the right. I used somewhat warmer colours in my choice of palette.<br /><br />That paved the way for emphasis on the foreground tree, shadows and grasses. I wanted to emphasize the warmth of the sunshine on the tree trunk and the highlighted grass clumps.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTC0JgaeoDOsayAuGSVqrPKASaDl2LbUqEtK65iGTwyU8LWa2sXmMT9baKqtKw9zj3AoL4aPHP3nbqWS8jRDoX03Sw2mdfHdEfyyZ3duS5hJ5-SowvihkVNm9F2KVBEKGLuFPyTMFkVB87VpoI-yH2TTAeuReMXz3Yb6WIo4Jf32nWDC5k-kFMN-xeMw/s1800/NOAPSLandscape2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1168" data-original-width="1800" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTC0JgaeoDOsayAuGSVqrPKASaDl2LbUqEtK65iGTwyU8LWa2sXmMT9baKqtKw9zj3AoL4aPHP3nbqWS8jRDoX03Sw2mdfHdEfyyZ3duS5hJ5-SowvihkVNm9F2KVBEKGLuFPyTMFkVB87VpoI-yH2TTAeuReMXz3Yb6WIo4Jf32nWDC5k-kFMN-xeMw/s320/NOAPSLandscape2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Along the way I noticed that my values weren’t as I wanted them, but was distracted by the hi value/intensity colours I’d painted in. So I went back to an old illustrator trick. I grabbed an old sheet of red acetate and laid it over both the reference photo and my 5x7 inch sketch. </span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The red acetate canceled out the greens, and revealed just the values. I quickly noticed that the foreground trunk really needed darkening with an extra dash of intensity. I made the appropriate adjustments and called it done!</span><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></p></div></div>Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-39684863875910190162023-03-26T15:24:00.000-07:002023-03-26T15:24:12.970-07:002023 Celebration of the Arts Show at WKU Kentucky Museum<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtV9lOGnLtYFPzMY1qBBnVJ15AaR_DD7pkiJ7igCkfiXXilB0kUhmcZtsx2fHWI1Dg2ieb8d76WeDFAammB1EV0sY0lbyvAIhwokQ_YJGe8hSF4aE5ZN8V-sJq7Ha9n9dnSfRmhSawvHOzMNfRoLPLx-o8ty25VEiX87R2802ACUB1OyCVtsJbHvc/s1557/Homage2023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1557" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtV9lOGnLtYFPzMY1qBBnVJ15AaR_DD7pkiJ7igCkfiXXilB0kUhmcZtsx2fHWI1Dg2ieb8d76WeDFAammB1EV0sY0lbyvAIhwokQ_YJGe8hSF4aE5ZN8V-sJq7Ha9n9dnSfRmhSawvHOzMNfRoLPLx-o8ty25VEiX87R2802ACUB1OyCVtsJbHvc/s320/Homage2023.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Homage</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This bust, Homage was Frank Lyne's entry for the 2023 Celebration of the Arts show by Abound Credit Union in the WKU Kentucky Museum. It's on display March 4th thru April 14, 2023</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOz6R1iZfydLxfEEMt7TbjdtymgYarzZZ0-KXVzE-xxgDHOjzFhbFg21t8M9zK5UrjIJzV5khGlR-f7DvXt9f0VH5bZx7qlvM5l0cY5wu-hs9INCvCBAsXPZVitmCMJstW2GOH6SmkBZUJVXU-19B9bmDX1Io0coe9uP5BRtLJ5npqAFbGrbElOYQ/s2000/BlueHeron2023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="2000" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOz6R1iZfydLxfEEMt7TbjdtymgYarzZZ0-KXVzE-xxgDHOjzFhbFg21t8M9zK5UrjIJzV5khGlR-f7DvXt9f0VH5bZx7qlvM5l0cY5wu-hs9INCvCBAsXPZVitmCMJstW2GOH6SmkBZUJVXU-19B9bmDX1Io0coe9uP5BRtLJ5npqAFbGrbElOYQ/w497-h202/BlueHeron2023.jpg" width="497" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Blue Heron</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is my painting entry, Blue Heron, in the Celebration of the Arts show in the Kentucky Museum. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhloQoVkHykpxIu3iWH-9J_MOiGn5yGynddFaxlSH31oCUj6M1CkbS5HCpjJkVWvEHuompTUnl9pNRQ2v6vuTlxmtOjGoagcVR_tNQLgD9CRwHyZPXqA07gFka7ZzTUuc0I6AwUWJe74rExliKoGAooawyAjk7vSei7LdRhZGSeOpcF93dlN8u4q4Y/s1366/BlueHeronatCelebration.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="800" height="539" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhloQoVkHykpxIu3iWH-9J_MOiGn5yGynddFaxlSH31oCUj6M1CkbS5HCpjJkVWvEHuompTUnl9pNRQ2v6vuTlxmtOjGoagcVR_tNQLgD9CRwHyZPXqA07gFka7ZzTUuc0I6AwUWJe74rExliKoGAooawyAjk7vSei7LdRhZGSeOpcF93dlN8u4q4Y/w315-h539/BlueHeronatCelebration.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">This pic gives you an idea of the size of the Blue Heron painting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp_4g2g2_7bX_Zyn82ZXR6x3a3nxtA8H60oYadCQw63doQa7VZVdU114nHkoC0KU8xq-dKin6RAtZGLIeWUWu7NGwQe0DrBvsyFqBPorb2uNwv5wh_np_KRIhbVXtFG3WJHfBWhAt4nm1pW6SyG0J-mEFkFX0ApyHHR47MbT5WYp6istEZr2AFqo8/s2000/HomageAtCelebration.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp_4g2g2_7bX_Zyn82ZXR6x3a3nxtA8H60oYadCQw63doQa7VZVdU114nHkoC0KU8xq-dKin6RAtZGLIeWUWu7NGwQe0DrBvsyFqBPorb2uNwv5wh_np_KRIhbVXtFG3WJHfBWhAt4nm1pW6SyG0J-mEFkFX0ApyHHR47MbT5WYp6istEZr2AFqo8/w363-h484/HomageAtCelebration.jpg" width="363" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">This pic shows Homage on display. Frank's jeans are to the right.</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><p></p>Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-58199260987737308822023-01-11T05:36:00.000-08:002023-01-11T05:36:12.334-08:00Ref Photo KittyWindow<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKM81WGLH9OHCzN1Gl2S877plSALxFc7qMpyCfPouro7H6I6azMwgO17YN6TIa3p6pzEgtq40hum3c-DoNSByyLcikDLx3UTQJwPOyCWePbKmuGfNLLzXD7DPlW-gBT6t2Q4YLt73Zww66YRNCOwHWuhPSzFB6RRPIxv7rXITQd8o1hr-2Q1m9Kgw/s2016/KittyWindow.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKM81WGLH9OHCzN1Gl2S877plSALxFc7qMpyCfPouro7H6I6azMwgO17YN6TIa3p6pzEgtq40hum3c-DoNSByyLcikDLx3UTQJwPOyCWePbKmuGfNLLzXD7DPlW-gBT6t2Q4YLt73Zww66YRNCOwHWuhPSzFB6RRPIxv7rXITQd8o1hr-2Q1m9Kgw/w300-h400/KittyWindow.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br />Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-72091511483414310762022-11-26T07:38:00.001-08:002022-11-26T07:38:44.542-08:00Reference Photo-Sunrise Landscape<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6A2iKpgYgqMqnOXpTsJYUMldk26Ykf1uIU7tmEfRq93gDpBfmUbk3dHZdHQuuDJKFanGjhdVRACrA8Ym92VMjP1MIWquLff9bQT1IS91uM0FF4tn0jl8mkKD0hCVoQ_wIeaP7-PuU15x-4SkkkKcevrffgYFuom7e2keZpC5eylA58ID6bF51xBw/s3264/IMG_8312.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="551" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6A2iKpgYgqMqnOXpTsJYUMldk26Ykf1uIU7tmEfRq93gDpBfmUbk3dHZdHQuuDJKFanGjhdVRACrA8Ym92VMjP1MIWquLff9bQT1IS91uM0FF4tn0jl8mkKD0hCVoQ_wIeaP7-PuU15x-4SkkkKcevrffgYFuom7e2keZpC5eylA58ID6bF51xBw/w413-h551/IMG_8312.jpg" width="413" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-17095933998098550172022-02-16T12:14:00.005-08:002022-02-17T04:55:30.192-08:00Cover for Hairt Before Dawn or It All Started with a Dog<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhE7m6WgxBQiNF3PFA28MnGXggaE8EY_S350awzB0tiyYaDoVvW7AewPp14y7d-JmHzVK3TOK5NbMOw3EUAt1TlVcJJ7Go_tg7Mf_FXceQd86r_liFBFKMYYTfxLOCiK9YsFeFesnvK_Qtfh9g79Bo8goTTRGKtCmCEnW8QPmCHkNRV8u1JDShcfFU=s1150" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="788" height="586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhE7m6WgxBQiNF3PFA28MnGXggaE8EY_S350awzB0tiyYaDoVvW7AewPp14y7d-JmHzVK3TOK5NbMOw3EUAt1TlVcJJ7Go_tg7Mf_FXceQd86r_liFBFKMYYTfxLOCiK9YsFeFesnvK_Qtfh9g79Bo8goTTRGKtCmCEnW8QPmCHkNRV8u1JDShcfFU=w401-h586" width="401" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Hairt Before Dawn</b> written by Grace E. Howell</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cover Art by Alison Davis Lyne</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">You could say it all started with a dog.....this old mutt of a coon hound called Copper Top.....who was wandering around in our neighborhood, looking for his lost love.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpgUgsLHVDutxfYf-H-MfhPaHAOXxNOzQyARLByMiXz08zZmnaLgH2NLxjhU4kgvxlwmsTKD8uzjy3BcAcwwNa-hhVTM_qu-DD3nlcbpnvELiT0jipkBnS65-WWQC2JgqN4oyEoRRz_CtZa-Sf3Id2fmr2l3fZjYyyFjGz5D4_78SyOiIx6jaN2g4=s661" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpgUgsLHVDutxfYf-H-MfhPaHAOXxNOzQyARLByMiXz08zZmnaLgH2NLxjhU4kgvxlwmsTKD8uzjy3BcAcwwNa-hhVTM_qu-DD3nlcbpnvELiT0jipkBnS65-WWQC2JgqN4oyEoRRz_CtZa-Sf3Id2fmr2l3fZjYyyFjGz5D4_78SyOiIx6jaN2g4=s320" width="242" /></a></div><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">But that wouldn't be exactly right. It really started when I got an email from an old SCBWI friend Grace Howell, who had just finished her novel, </span><u style="text-align: left;">Hairt Before Dawn</u><span style="text-align: left;"> and wanted me to illustrate the cover. We discussed the concept for the cover and Grace sent me the book jacket blurb: </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">Darkness hides evil lurking to destroy.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px; margin-bottom: 0.11in;"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span face="TrebuchetMS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In 1904, the Black Patch Wars set neighbor against neighbor in a violent struggle between tobacco farmers and against big business. Fifteen-year-old Harriette Lindstrom, known as dumb Hairt, is caught up in the conflict. But nothing can stop Hairt—not blindness, ridicule nor shunning, not fire demons nor the evil Mr. Dayton. Determined to prove her worth, she follows the spirit of Maybelle her birth mother and leaves the farm, her adopted family, and her faithful coonhound Mutt. At blind school, her dream becomes a nightmare. Only the song in her heart, her love for the boy with the magic voice, and her strong will can pull her through the burning fires of rejection and isolation to face the guns of the dreaded Night Riders.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">So with the concept of showing Hairt holding her arms open for her faithful coonhound Mutt, in place, I pulled some reference photos I had on file. I pulled the pic of our neighborhood coonhound, and one of some local woods in a mysterious dawn light, along with a old family pic from Grace Howell. She had drawn the inspiration of how the main character, Hairt, would look from that photo, and I just loved the image. Here I have just started painting the back lit dawn kissed woods. The soft dawn light would be brushed over the dark trees later.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOLsUwA79FOeMYIuJaU21KQDs7mtWrV7yM7FI5gqKBFA8WM2imp_VGWdo9rbl-hhW7gea6WnSTVvhJob0rOi4d8nRNoFcjvbocljqSBnhPdf2NfDjpvPuaaGeRJXb_D8eCyQz-giBNorFNJVvtkdXKaQyfmXElzhjL0h3Jj50E8ewUjcSSsBB3Vus=s896" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOLsUwA79FOeMYIuJaU21KQDs7mtWrV7yM7FI5gqKBFA8WM2imp_VGWdo9rbl-hhW7gea6WnSTVvhJob0rOi4d8nRNoFcjvbocljqSBnhPdf2NfDjpvPuaaGeRJXb_D8eCyQz-giBNorFNJVvtkdXKaQyfmXElzhjL0h3Jj50E8ewUjcSSsBB3Vus=s320" width="286" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I painted the cover image at a bit bigger than the required size for the cover, 6 x 9 inches allowing enough “wiggle” room for the printer to comfortably place the title and cover text. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6kCMyf-bQji7td8zeiOVj3qFhOrdBzwPhieghTWgmeinYSGQAe-ztxygqeXMJ3_dfJjIEVMDx91Pgn0-8aQqpO9M2UPlqJh18crNv6lKGo1e7ol-eKDwleADt_YWj4fBpdZcW2sp33WqOqahSHN9ruHcb7oMP12pWParY4v71UUb1jaUCOUF-yzs=s667" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6kCMyf-bQji7td8zeiOVj3qFhOrdBzwPhieghTWgmeinYSGQAe-ztxygqeXMJ3_dfJjIEVMDx91Pgn0-8aQqpO9M2UPlqJh18crNv6lKGo1e7ol-eKDwleADt_YWj4fBpdZcW2sp33WqOqahSHN9ruHcb7oMP12pWParY4v71UUb1jaUCOUF-yzs=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Now you can see most all the important bits are in place, the woods lit with a soft dawn glow, and a bit of a blueish mist of the loving spirit of Hairt's mother, faithful coonhound Mutt and of course Hairt herself.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWeA5qLCHH33K94Tsue2rX1XfEf5DP27Tj9gFMw0pgPCup5DCVo0z5zi8wQKCMjM5UUev4dL-S6pMrXS2Pstr4dgwO9ocfeeXymLGKzd_2JS0ki0bW7-PqUIXcjFfJrOGcaSA_FrKjSa41Oy6dOyXy-nvmDAAMlI59BpJU0ZBcMHwCNZxnr3adZvI=s688" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWeA5qLCHH33K94Tsue2rX1XfEf5DP27Tj9gFMw0pgPCup5DCVo0z5zi8wQKCMjM5UUev4dL-S6pMrXS2Pstr4dgwO9ocfeeXymLGKzd_2JS0ki0bW7-PqUIXcjFfJrOGcaSA_FrKjSa41Oy6dOyXy-nvmDAAMlI59BpJU0ZBcMHwCNZxnr3adZvI=s320" width="233" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Now comes the moment of truth for an illustration, when you remove the tape holding the bristol board down to the rigid board, and see what it all looks like. You can see a small bit of buckling from some juicy acrylic washes....but the bristol board does lay flat in the scanner bed.....whew!</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjt1nru0XJsswcgKiTWt1MCj0NCTPpThmPe6clFdF_YHVw0QjuDS5cqH3Pvuvrdt9IclzGvNVva-y9xM_l3lu9PUfJPA36kiV-ele2ZO5FZdI3BiIqXaPxuUkFZze6IdoVAgGwCo_Y8HGNhPLyq49dd4rdyHuqoMaA6HwyN-3Zk8bW1TlPvCqSh7FU=s834" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="834" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjt1nru0XJsswcgKiTWt1MCj0NCTPpThmPe6clFdF_YHVw0QjuDS5cqH3Pvuvrdt9IclzGvNVva-y9xM_l3lu9PUfJPA36kiV-ele2ZO5FZdI3BiIqXaPxuUkFZze6IdoVAgGwCo_Y8HGNhPLyq49dd4rdyHuqoMaA6HwyN-3Zk8bW1TlPvCqSh7FU=w490-h355" width="490" /></a></div><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">One bit of detail in the cover I particularly like is Hairt's gaze. Hairt is going blind, and she wouldn't see very well in early dawn light....yet knowing Mutt is close.....she turns towards the dog, but gazes right past Mutt. This bitty detail gives a hint to the casual viewer that something is a bit “off” with Hairt to provoke the thought of “what's going on here?”</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I really love doing book covers. Talented authors, like Grace Howell, get the fun of writing all the lovely bits of their story using many thousands of words. Us book cover illustrators only get the proverbial “one picture is worth a thousand words”, to render a snapshot of the book. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Here's a link to the book: </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Here's a link to Grace Howell's webpage: </span></p></div>Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-25489257892194438782020-10-07T14:32:00.000-07:002020-10-07T14:32:27.441-07:00She's a Good Egg....or Beginning Sketches<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimYNinDiIXcY3w793AMcWuH-nZfD1rytilYH5vQpWhVrOhRxft7evYDrvesQI28kKEJfZDDxi2HstipvGx4JIbAPIvp6OLWoBy1K7GNzCEJg0kn6x-c3j8sBIPcytcJrENkAJWYDyEKZg/s810/GoodEgg1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimYNinDiIXcY3w793AMcWuH-nZfD1rytilYH5vQpWhVrOhRxft7evYDrvesQI28kKEJfZDDxi2HstipvGx4JIbAPIvp6OLWoBy1K7GNzCEJg0kn6x-c3j8sBIPcytcJrENkAJWYDyEKZg/s320/GoodEgg1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This blog is a bit about sketching techniques we all learned long ago....but might have forgotten about. This is my take on sketching faces, not necessarily how I do it now a days, but more of how I <i>think </i>about sketching and painting people.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I grabbed a couple of HARD BOILED eggs from the frig and took a sharpie pen and drew three lines on the shell. One vertical line and two horizontal lines, one about a third of the way down and the other a third of the way up from the bottom. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw5ZZZADnMUmKDMTT32knDs92I68ppnnDYdYeOla0mpuIQTY82XMOmbxvW5AQnkzyd6xa9ViCC6fPCnb_Clui4uQvaQaYwO9ypUtXOoFiinrxCAt4VjiDjL9zJxMJ0lqxemtyYqeMFD20/s500/GoodEgg2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw5ZZZADnMUmKDMTT32knDs92I68ppnnDYdYeOla0mpuIQTY82XMOmbxvW5AQnkzyd6xa9ViCC6fPCnb_Clui4uQvaQaYwO9ypUtXOoFiinrxCAt4VjiDjL9zJxMJ0lqxemtyYqeMFD20/s320/GoodEgg2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I then drew outlines for two eyes, a nose and a mouth over the guidelines. 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(Note: no eggs were harmed in the making of this model.....but I make no promises about lunchtime.)</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh40qMoj4ZI5e5fqS6gf-mk8Wz0OME1zBwv4lDynGpk5nvdja5J2IXUBX3TDXO4SPoIhembI66xHYA9NlN2Up-k2bC2Gv_FS-IME2v4ir0wDKxH-sb7rCFaMSXIYVlgjYS5PaIYXtKg84Y/s500/GoodEgg3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh40qMoj4ZI5e5fqS6gf-mk8Wz0OME1zBwv4lDynGpk5nvdja5J2IXUBX3TDXO4SPoIhembI66xHYA9NlN2Up-k2bC2Gv_FS-IME2v4ir0wDKxH-sb7rCFaMSXIYVlgjYS5PaIYXtKg84Y/s320/GoodEgg3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I took a pic of three sides....one full face, one from above and a third three quarter view, and lined them up on my table. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVYbrxkm2FdHxV_mgIlz3zSljOfwDWM90k7P9cHNFfmSvuH2FS3N54V4KLldkfh_VbcT0vdlSGB0mQbTDuf0R7nzNbZTuZQQ7gHKi2zblDTDUlOEf7C2q3WSTJWp7Hx2-oKB5_3NPvfcw/s743/GoodEgg4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="743" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVYbrxkm2FdHxV_mgIlz3zSljOfwDWM90k7P9cHNFfmSvuH2FS3N54V4KLldkfh_VbcT0vdlSGB0mQbTDuf0R7nzNbZTuZQQ7gHKi2zblDTDUlOEf7C2q3WSTJWp7Hx2-oKB5_3NPvfcw/s320/GoodEgg4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I took a sketch pad, and with my pencil I drew a rough egg shape, and sketched in the three lines for the eyes, nose and mouth......then I copied off the ROUND egg shape onto the FLAT pencil drawing how the eyes,nose and mouth looked. In other words I located on a flat sketch where I saw the eyes, nose and mouth on the 3D egg shape. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I then went the other way and grabbed a piece of tracing paper and a few reference photos and traced the egg shape and lines over those photos. 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Also drawing a rough egg shape to show where you want your drawing to actually be on your paper keeps you from not having enough room to complete your drawing.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Bonus points: On the photo below of the Abraham Lincoln sculpture, trace off a egg shape and draw your locator lines at the eyes, nose and mouth. What's the first thing you notice about the shape of the egg outlines? 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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Tho' it doesn't look it, this painting is inspired by another of my outdoor festival photos. It seemed to be a day for doggies......big doggies, bitty doggies....doggies in tutus! I liked the simplicity of this girl walking her pup in the bright sunlight. I wanted to capture the gestures of both the girl shepherding along her new pup pal, and the lovely dog who is obviously having a ball trotting along checking out all the sights and smells. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In a recent fb feed, <a href="http://www.tracybarrett.com/">Tracy Barrett</a> (author, SCBWI RA coordinator, dear friend) showed a photo she'd taken of a “Terracotta statue of a young woman: Etruscan, 3<sup>rd</sup>cent B.C.) in the <span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Metropolitan Museum in NY</span></span></span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The first thing that struck my eye was the statue had chin length hair, rather than the usual long bound hair of that era. Her eyes looked HUGE, with a slightly “sulky” look to her mouth. Right then I began to “see” this young girl in modern dress. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Based on yet another recent fb share, I remembered seeing some work by an artist that imagined what long ago folks might look like if depicted with today's digital media. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So I thought I'd take a try at a “statue update” on this Etruscan girl, using my preferred “old school” media, paints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The finished sketch looked similar to a image of Julius Caesar done by Becca Saladin at <a href="https://mymodernmet.com/royalty-now-historical-figures-modern-portraits/">https://mymodernmet.com/royalty-now-historical-figures-modern-portraits/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I went on with the full painting you see at the top of this post. I added grown out, multi colored hair with blue tips, some lipstick and a t-shirt with suspenders.But looking at those HUGE eyes I wanted to try to go a bit anime. I sketched out my character, still with the sulky lips, and giving her wild blue hair, rose blush cheeks, generous nose and big highlit eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This painting was inspired by a photo I took of a produce seller's sidewalk sign. Unnoticed by me at the time, in the background was this charming vignette of a young couple getting to meet and greet over tables of veggies and flowers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I loved the set up, but did extensive adjustments to the two main characters and the surroundings. Then I painted over and smudged a lot of the details I just can't seem to help painting! To enforce the sense of distance of the viewer from the encounter I added in the foreground a row of produce filled baskets, painted in sharp detail. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I really enjoyed painting this vignette and working with the body language and gestures. </span></div>
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Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-53235275310776662752020-03-17T09:18:00.003-07:002020-03-18T05:15:28.594-07:00Memories of a Blue Market<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This small square painting tells my made up story of a couple meeting at an open air market, their afternoon flirtation, and their breakup.....all in one day. I painted the figures using the market setting and gestures from “real life”, but played with features and such to suit my story telling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I especially had fun painting the three “fool the eye” photographic images, making them look like they were “taped” to the canvas. They show a head shot of the guy the girl was flirting with, a candied image of her feeding him a cookie and then her view of him walking away at the end of the afternoon.</span></div>
Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-19628398557409751662020-03-09T13:26:00.000-07:002020-03-09T13:26:43.495-07:00Fur Baby<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This painting called up the story telling side of my brain. At a recent out door fair, I saw a young lady carrying her perfectly healthy puppy, leash and all. Well that caught my attention, and I got to wondering, why would the puppy's owner be carrying her pet? Aside from the normal fun of carrying a wiggly puppy, I decided that she might have been carting the puppy to “save” it from another barking half-pint poochie. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I painted this scene from my reference photos, playing with many festival goers appearances and lighting to “set” them all into the scene. I didn't have a photo of a yapping puppy on hand.....but it just so happened that our neighborhood had gotten a new canine resident. And that new little puppy decided that any pedestrian passersby, like Frank and me, were fair game to bark, bark,bark.... and yip yip at. So he ended up in my painting as the bitty yapping puppy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Last night Frank and I attended the lovely US Bank Celebration of the Arts show 2020 held at Western Kentucky University's Kentucky Museum. It had been a while since we'd attended, and it has really grown! With over 150 artist entries and the public invited and with each artist bringing a plus one....or two....or three it was a BIG crowd. As always, the hard working staff at the Museum put on a wonderful reception. We so appreciate all the work that goes into pulling off an art exhibit of this size.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh.....and the best part of the event was Frank won 2<sup>nd</sup>place sculpture for Reach!!</span></span></div>
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Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-33750092590222324872020-02-20T13:57:00.000-08:002020-02-20T13:57:32.497-08:00Busy French Market<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">This painting came about from a summer time visit to a farmers market. I wanted to play a bit with composition and “near and far” aspects of the busy market. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">I began with various folks in the market, capturing their gestures with broad strokes of colour and little detail, since they were essentially “background”. I loved the blue “French Market” umbrellas over the attractive veggie laden tables. I took many pics of the luscious veggies, and “stacked” them in my painting with the warmest colors (oranges, yellows, fire engine reds) in the forefront of the painting. Layered behind were less warm colors of onions and red cabbages. I couldn't resist adding in some little price boards with a bit of French. Choux is french for cabbage! </span></span></div>
Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-52105331166483357872020-02-16T14:07:00.001-08:002020-02-16T14:07:47.872-08:00All The Angles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This painting came out of a photo shoot at the Clarksville Montgomery County Old Courthouse building. The angles produced by the gables and turret towers were were just too lovely to pass up. I got to play with “bouncing” sunlight, (cool on the top and warm in reflected shadows from underneath), when I worked on the statue of Blind Justice that stands atop a pediment on the roof. </span></div>
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Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-56431683964532566842020-02-07T07:18:00.000-08:002020-02-07T07:18:14.540-08:00Market Colors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This bitty painting, only 8x8 inches, was sparked by busy market goer, striding briskly thru the open air market. She had already gotten her market items, and was walking along with her little girl on her hip. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I represented the swirl of market activity going by at a fast pace,with colourful paint blurs. Until you stop and look at a specific booth, the people and items for sale seem to be a colorful festive jumble. Just part of the charm of an open air market visit.</span></span></div>
Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-34541219961786432392020-02-05T08:27:00.000-08:002020-02-05T09:15:22.526-08:00Balcony Seating<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I had in my photograph stash, a photo of a grey unremarkable city building that had a awing over the rooftop and I let my imagination run amok with details. I added some people in the background, some greenery on the bitty balcony and a couple of lovely girls waving at a friend on the street below.</span></span></div>
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Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-65255412312971771232019-11-08T13:05:00.001-08:002019-11-08T13:05:47.516-08:00Art Tip-Three Ways to Reserve Your Whites in Watercolour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Keep the colors “corralled” with a water “lasso”.To see more about this technique please see this blog post: </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://lyneartblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/watercolor-play-day-at-library.html">http://lyneartblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/watercolor-play-day-at-library.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For the first technique, a colored pencil wax resist, you are using the wax in a colored pencil to keep your watercolor from soaking into the watercolor paper where ever you have drawn your line. Use of colored pencil, especially without erasing it, is not really an American Watercolor Society accepted practice.....but if following a juried show rule is not an issue.....I've found it does the job quite nicely.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today I got to lead a bitty guided watercolor play date at our lovely Logan County Library. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was open to the public and I planned a couple of watercolor exercises that would suit folks who had never held a brush before.....or folks that were looking to learn how to expand their watercolor techniques.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://lyneartblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/windowsill-of-leaves-watercolour-with.html">http://lyneartblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/windowsill-of-leaves-watercolour-with.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is just a bitty blog about how we spent our weekend.....at the 2019 Pennyroyal Art Exhibition in Hopkinsville KY. The annual show has a lovely reception in the Hopkinsville Community College Auditorium Gallery at the close of the show. The first pic is Frank with his First Place 3-D ribbon for his recent sculpture REACH. Also shown is his smaller piece, Shark.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can see a bit more about the making of REACH here: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I had three pieces in the show: Street Festival, Kentucky Winter Wheat and Chocolatier. You can see a bit more about each painting by clicking on the individual pictures below. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We both had a lovely time and we really appreciate all the kind folks at Hopkinsville Art Guild for putting on such a great show.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This painting, Reach started out in response to or maybe sympathy for Frank's recent carving of the same name....shown here in this blog post: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I learned what kind of subject he had in mind to portray the title of Reach, I remembered some old photos I had taken, of some kids climbing on a homemade climb wall, at a long forgotten fair. I dug them out and in the process of reviewing them for Frank.....I got interested myselves. I dug thru my canvas stash and found a unusual triangular shaped gallery wrapped canvas. I had bought it …... then couldn't figure out just what would work on a two sided canvas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I worked up a couple of sketches of two of the young boys climbing up the wall. Instead of the crudely painted backdrop painted on the climb wall, I decided to use for reference pics of an actual cliff on the creek. Which I just so happened to have, courtesy of Frank's superior photographs of various creek scenes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I began by making paper cutouts of various hand holds bolted to the climb wall and my sketches of the two young climbers. I used the cutouts to mask off the details, and began glazing in random....but “rock looking” scrumbles. I used red first, then yellow and finally blue. I followed those glazes with brushes of various other colours.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I let a few layers dry then began to glaze in the lower figure. This boy was a bit behind the other one.....and was a bit hesitant looking down a bit worriedly. He was depending on the secured rope tied to his belt harness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After getting the first boy glazed in, I went onto the second boy that was close to the top.....and REACHING for the pentacle of the flat tabletop of the rock cliff. His rope is much shorter, and shows a slacking of his weight since he is pulling up on the cliff top. After wrapping up the details of they boys' clothes, I went onto painting the individual handholds. I saved the rock textures for last, emphasizing ing the overhead sunlight ghosting off the creek rock upper surfaces. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">This blog is both a bit about my technique in painting Speech Practice and a bit about the woman I am portraying....Josephine Henry, Kentucky suffragist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I had painted a portrait of Josephine Henry from an old black and white photograph done when she was about fifty-ish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But I was captured by the idea that Josephine Henry was considered a good speaker, especially in support of the Married Woman's Property Act of 1894. But I wondered, just how did she get so good at speaking before an audience? She probably wasn't “born that way”......so I figured that she had to practice.....do a lotta of practice. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I wanted to paint her a bit earlier in her life, around thirty five or so, so I gave her a hairstyle and clothing that better reflected that earlier decade. Since this is purely my imagination, I placed her outside, in her backyard, and gave her an audience of three......a bust of Homer, a bust of Cicero (famed Roman orator).....and a curious cat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I deepened the background foliage, and refined my idea of what she might have looked like at the earlier age, and deepened the shadows on her “audience”. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I also wanted to have on the top of the stack of books, a representation of a curiosity of the time (before youtube), a whole book on the formal technique of speech gestures. Very dramatic hand swoops and chops designed to give any speaker a tool box of gestures for emphasis of their point. Of course the speakers depicted were all male......it was considered a man's job to give speeches after all! But nothing stopped women from learning all about the fine art of speech making from that same manual.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I continued refining my historical illustration of the “making of a speech maker” in Josephine Henry, till I felt she reflected my concept of the scene.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">1843-1928 Kentucky writer, speaker, political advocate for women's rights. Born in Newport KY and later moved to Versailles, KY. She married Capt. Wm. Henry in 1868. Both were involved in local/state community affairs. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">Josephine Henry was instrumental in getting passage of Kentucky's Married Women Property Act or the Husband and Wife Act in 1894. This bill allowed women the right to own property in Kentucky, overturning old laws preventing women from owning property, receiving wages, making a will or even be guardians of their own children. Passage of this bill, was a crucial step in women winning the right to vote in Kentucky.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">Like many women activists of the time, Josephine Henry came from a well to do family. She had the time, books and support to learn about political issues and developed the will to actually make change happen. She authored pamphlets on women's equality. She lectured throughout the state, and wrote hundreds of articles and editorials for newspapers.She co-founded the Kentucky Equal Rights Association. She died in Versailles after a stroke at the age of 85</span></span></span></div>
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Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-76186999856876997282019-09-11T14:41:00.000-07:002019-09-11T14:41:27.404-07:00Fan Dance or I Love Sunlight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Fan Dance</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This week I'm talking a bit about FAN DANCE, another in my figurative series. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I pulled up a lovely couple of old photos of a boy and girl, that I felt had a “story”. They were from a batch of photos I took years ago at a RenFaire. I sketched out the boy and girl figures, and reworked their features/expressions to suit the story I had in mind. I did a quickie colour sketch that you can see in the upper left of the photo. With such great lights and darks to work with....the underpainting went quickly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After laying in all the major masses of color, I went to work on what I consider the “ice cream” portion of a painting....the faces. For maximum sunlight in the painting, I kept the main costumes in the light range of colors.....so's I could play off reflective light bouncing around. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I included the little white awning and its support on the craft cart where the girl is selling her fans.....but I was a bit hesitant at so much stark white dividing the couple, in the composition. But it had “worked” on the bitty color sketch, so I went with it. In the sketch I had some sunlit trees and a pathway in the background, but later changed that to a gravel path leading up to the cart.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here the features of both the boy and girl have been sketched in. I went on to adjust both the main characters' features and expressions to “say” what I wanted. I painted in the fans set out for sale and called this one....DONE!</span></span></div>
Alison Lynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09608490230942995768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321531757928424892.post-91231835176435904052019-09-09T04:59:00.000-07:002019-09-09T04:59:05.919-07:00Gazebo or Study in Shadows and Light<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This week's blog post is about a bitty painting called Gazebo. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This painting ended up being as much about the light glowing thru the latticework of an outdoor gazebo as the beautiful model. I started out with a snippet of a photograph I took at a long ago RenFaire. I rearranged some bits of the composition and started to work. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The first challenge was getting enough highlights to show the modified model's face, (changed to look at the viewer) but keep with the theme of a backlit shadowed interior. I fell in love with the intricate latticework patterns of light and shadow and how the light seemed to skate off the edges of the latticework fretting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I soon found that I needed guidance to keep with the straight lines of the latticework. I got out my handy dandy artist's tape and with a T square lined off the correct lines for the latticework and the sunlight that glowed thru the openings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After some sitting and looking at the painting I decided the the background tree and ground cover were too busy and competed with the main attraction of the sitter and the gazebo, so's I simplified and muted it a bit and called the painting......done!</span></span></div>
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