Mermaid: Blue Eyes
Step by Step
To celebrate MerMay I'm putting up my step by step of my oil painting "Mermaid: Blue Eyes."
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| I'd done several small thumbnails of my idea of doing a portrait of a mermaid, using just her face, hands and hair in a square canvas, before doing the pencil directly onto the canvas board. |
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| I first went over the pencil with a green line in oils |
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| Did the face and skin tones, with greenish shadows |
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| Starting the background |
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| Putting the greens in the kelp |
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| Giving more detail to the kelp fronds and her hair |
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| Finishing the shell and sea life decorating her hair and a pet fish |
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| Framed and sold! at IlluXcon 2014 |
Jody
Oh, wow!! That's how you get that gorgeous, soft outline. Very interesting that you reinforced the pencil in green oil! One of those "ah-hah" moments. ; )
ReplyDeleteLoved this one at IX, BTW.