This is the photograph that I used for the nephews for their upside-down drawing. Truth be told, I'm still putting down my drawings with tracings....helps me speed things along, helps me to focus just on my painting successes and failures (instead of drawing or perspective failures). I like how this painting turned out, it's nice to look at. The pinkie finger looks a little wonky, but if I hadn't of mentioned it you likely wouldn't have looked that close at it. I like the fact that the flower doesn't have much detail on it, yet I can tell it's a carnation. But when I look at the skin tones in the photo now, and compare them to my skin tones in the painting....I wonder why I insist on using raw umber for every dark crevice. Surely I can figure out how to make a really dark peach color. I will attempt to pay better attention to that with my next try at "hands".
You know those little games in the Sunday Funnies - the "Spot 6 Differences between these two pictures"? That is what I essentially do when I post these pictures here on the blog. I see the photo vs the painting and start mentally listing what's different (ie what's wrong) about the painting. I probably should tone the critique down a bit. As I look back at my initial paintings, it is really quite amazing how far I've come. Practice, practice, practice!
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