Family portrait
I used a low resolution newspaper photo as the reference for this picture - the newspaper couldn't manage to get us a decent original photo to keep, so I thought they wouldn't object if I used the photo as the basis for an illustration to give to Robin. Although I gave Robin the colour version, I'm not sure that the earlier black and white version isn't better. I might have another go but maybe with black and white and just paynes grey watercolour touches. Any constructive comments would be appreciated.
posted by Julie Oakley at Sunday, June 19, 2005
5 Comments:
I really love this - great composition and I love the perspective. Nice work and lovely family!
I really have to thank the unknown photographer for the composition - wish I'd been able to get a decent copy of the photo.
That is really frustrating, but you've definitely turned a negative into a positive with this lovely picture! Did you do it on paper or online? If on the computer, which program did you use?
I did the black and white version first (black gouache on a large piece of cheap paper) and then scanned it (in pieces and patched it together in photoshop as my scanner isn't large enough). Then I printed that out on a large piece of watercolour paper (I can print max width of 320mm and any length on my lovely epson stylus 2100) Then I painted the colour in watercolour onto the printout. I had the original photo enlarged and up on my monitor whilst I was painting at the easel. The 2 stages were to allow me the option of trying out different colours but to still have the black and white version if I wanted. I then did the scanning and patching of the colour version to put on my blog.
This is beautiful! The color version is so lovely, but I also really like the effect of the black and white. Stunning!
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