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| Renoir Bathers Snippet through Viewfinder |
It was the second week of my workshop with
Eli Cedrone. The plan was to use the same ideas from last week's still life abstract, but apply them to a figure. That process was to design the painting in black and white with a charcoal thumbnail, to do a line drawing that would flatten the planes, then to develop the abstract version into our desired level of realism.
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| Thumbnail Design |
I chose a painting of Renoir's bathers as inspiration for this one. I used my viewfinder to frame two small portions of the (very large) painting. I then did a thumbnail in charcoal of each to decide which one I would paint on my 9x12 canvas. I liked both thumbnails so I decided (too ambitiously as it turns out) that I would just paint both. The mission was to keep it loose and free, so I thought there would be time for both - ha, not true!
As the face and hand came together I decided that this looked like a sleeping goddess. I refined the closed eyes and adjusted the mouth to be slightly drawn down as in sleep, dreaming even.
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