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Originally Posted by Alexandra Tyng
If this officer is living, you have a chance to photograph him at the very least.
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Hi Alex, i appreciate your deep thoughts that you're contributing to critique my painting. Indeed it has many issues that has brought to my attention, and better my next paintings.
He is a living officer, and while the liaison officer (the guy from the base who is in charge of this project) could provide many references for me, he couldn't at least get me to allow a photo session with the subject, despite numerous times stressing to him how the lighting and quality of the photos didn't do justice to the project.
So i photographed myself in the lighting and time of day as i thought it would have appeared similarly in the painting's background. With two different reference photos, i won't be surprise if you tell me that it's difficult to try and piece these two different pictures together mentally!
Because as i read your thread here, I thought to myself and realise that i was paying too much attention to my own photo, to try and get the lighting right, than to focus on getting the likeness of the subject.
Phtalo blue? Nowadays i hardly use that because i found it to be really opaque, and kinda hard to work with - kinda how i felt about Rembrandt's Indian Red, yet another unforgivingly opaque color.
So i used W&N Cobalt Blue + Titanium White to get the blue sky.
But with your recommendation, i'd give it another try again.
Thanks Alex!
