This gouache painting is based on a photograph by Dominic Alves. He goes by the name Dominic's Pics on Flickr. I'm branching out a bit in this painting because, unlike many of my portraits, here I include the background. I'm starting to include more details in my work which I find exciting. I'm still definitely into the gouache. So, I've been doing a painting a day for the last four days or so and I want to try to keep up the pace. The more I work, the more I learn. I figure if I do a lot of paintings it will allow me to experiment more. With this painting there was no blue in the photograph, more oranges, greens and yellows, but blue is the complement to orange, so, at the last minute I added some washes of blue and I think it strengthened the painting. Though I've been painting on and off for many years, I still consider myself an intermediate beginner.
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This gouache painting is based on a photograph by Dominic Alves. He goes by the name Dominic's Pics on Flickr. I'm branching out a bit in this painting because, unlike many of my portraits, here I include the background. I'm starting to include more details in my work which I find exciting. I'm still definitely into the gouache. So, I've been doing a painting a day for the last four days or so and I want to try to keep up the pace. The more I work, the more I learn. I figure if I do a lot of paintings it will allow me to experiment more. With this painting there was no blue in the photograph, more oranges, greens and yellows, but blue is the complement to orange, so, at the last minute I added some washes of blue and I think it strengthened the painting. Though I've been painting on and off for many years, I still consider myself an intermediate beginner.