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07-05-2004, 06:03 PM
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Allan,
Somewhere in portrait hell there is someone who will shoot me for telling you this. It will help you with learning values.
Take a piece of transparent plastic. Place it over a good color print of Camilla. Mix the tones to match the values right on the photograph itself. I will help you quickly learn values. It helped me because I was also afraid of making skin-tones too dark. Mine were always so pasty.
There is a downside to this. Depending on it to much will result in photographic color and not developing your eye. It is a good jump start however on judging values. That is why I always recommend doing studies if not the whole thing from life.
Good luck!
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07-05-2004, 06:21 PM
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Location: 8543-dk Hornslet, Denmark
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Sharon
I will try that.
My printer is not very good so I did the paintings by printing out a gray scale photo to measure from, and looked at the monitor for the colors. It is placed on a chair just above the palette. I have build a box around the lap top so that I can see the screen even when the sun shines in the room through the skylight window, facing west, or the lamp is on in the evening/night.
Probably it would be easier with a real photo.
Allan
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07-07-2004, 03:27 PM
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I have been softening the shadows, actually I have almost repainted the face.
Allan
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07-08-2004, 12:03 AM
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Location: Southboro, MA
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Hi Allan! I like this version much better, it's more true to her.
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07-08-2004, 11:45 AM
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Much better, Allan. Softer and richer.
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07-08-2004, 12:02 PM
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Joined: Nov 2001
Location: Houston, TX
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Beautiful
Hi Allan,
Wow, this is just beautiful. And you have captured her likeness so well. This portrait seems to have a lot of feeling. And I think your background and flowers you have painted are actually prettier than the greenery in the photographs.
Joan
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07-08-2004, 03:31 PM
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Thank you Ladies,
I am happy with the result for now, and will try to get the other two portraits of Camilla finished.
We are having family visiting for the next week so it may take some time before I come back with something.
I will probably be undertaking some more portraits of the family during this week, by taking some photos.
Thank you again for your help and encouragement.
Allan
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