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How's this?
Linda and Valerie.
Thank you very much. This is a surprise to my sister's brother, as it is hard for him to be so far from his family in Africa. I will probably never have the opportunity to see his Mom or his family. I'm hoping that if he does not see the portrait and his Mom side-by-side, the fact that I rendered her skin tone too light won't be so obvious.
The only medium I've ever tried is acrylic, and I suspect that it does take more work blending and so forth. However, I tend to play with colors on the canvas, knowing that if something doesn't work, I can easily paint over it. I'd have to have a much better grasp of colors to work in oils, to be able to get it right the first time so as not to create mud.
I'm attaching two Photoshop modified backgrounds. The first has the coloring lightened and desaturated. In the second I also blurred out the brushstrokes. Are either of these what you were suggesting? If so, I was thinking of doing a wash with a gray mixture of burnt umber and white.
Thanks again,
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