Recently, I've enjoyed creating a series of paintings using black-and-white vintage photos as reference and inventing the color from imagination. I was going through a chapter of feeling stuck and "blocked" as an artist. Working with these images freed me up, giving me a more carefree attitude without a personal attachment to the subject like I do when painting someone close to me like a family member, friend or portrait client. These former eras of film, ballet and theater have a classic aesthetic that I love. I use the initial emotional impact I get from the photo, and I use that to guide the palette. I love working from vintage photographs for that reason-it exercises the interpretive muscle!
REFERENCE PHOTO
My reference here was a black-and-white photo of the dancer Margaret Morris, circa 1910. My intuition guided me to this Easter egg-inspired palette. I use a very extensive chromatic palette, but some key colors in this painting are: lead-tin yellow light by Michael Harding, and Sennelier paints in Chinese orange, baryte green, permanent green, cobalt violet and king's blue.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة August - September 2022 من International Artist.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة August - September 2022 من International Artist.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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