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Hello Michael.
First of all, I would like to thank you for taking the time to look and comment on my painting.
The demonstration on lighting effects was very helpful and informative.
Yes, the lighting on the reference photograph is not what it should be, I agree. However, she liked the photograph and her position or stance in it so much that I decided to tackle it anyway. I did have a couple of better photographs of her to help me with details, I realise that this is not ideal but I did consider it a challenge. As I am still in the early stages of my venture into portraiture, I thought that taking on a challenge such as this would be good experience. Was this wrong?
As for the cropping that you mention. I was advised by another portrait artist about composition in portraits who me completely different advice on this! He said that to make a better and more interesting composition in a portrait you should try to crop a little of the subject out of the frame which will, in effect 'lead the eye into the painting'.
Anyway, I did put in some planning some thought into the composition, but I probably misunderstood what he was saying. I will have to read up more on portraiture composition before I tackle my next one.
I still have quite a lot to do on the painting before it is 'put to bed', and I cannot get back to it until after next Wednesday.
I will, if all goes according to plan, post the final version by next weekend. Hopefully, it will get past the perusal of all you wonderful experts without any hitches! Fingers crossed!
Thank you once again Michael.
Barbara
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