Portrait is very loosely based on a Juliette Belmonte painting. Painted on a 9 x 12 cradled board. Mixed media background is the prep for another painting.
Three steps of this multi-layered painting for week 2 of Let’s Face It 2023.
“Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end, or almost to the end, of the day.” ― Winston Churchill
I painted this portrait in tones of black and white with a burnt umber base painting. I had fun playing around with it in Filter Forge so put these 4 renditions together. Original posted below. The image was found on Unsplash.
Image from an art journal spread, “Dream in Gold.” From a partial poetry quote by Shiloh Sophia McCloud- “Do dream in gold.. Someone has to… Why not you?”
I have been enjoying creating in journals this year so much. The photo of this spread was taken before I had fully finished the piece. Inspired by Effy Wild’s May lesson for Book of Days 2021.
I am doing the Abstract Portraits 2022 online class and for the first warm up lesson I decided to import a photo of the original canvas painting into Photoshop and add a variety of Filter Forge filters to it just for fun. The original image is in the center.
“Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.” John Piper Face image by Luke Braswell on Unsplash.