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From photo to painting

5/30/2017

2 Comments

 
Have you ever had an idea that consumed a good deal of your thoughts? You know, the kind of idea that won't go away until you act upon it. I admit I have these kind of ideas a lot. I guess it goes with the territory or the environment of my creative space.

For over a week I've been focused on an image, a photo of a honu ( sea turtle ). I played with this photo in a new app I have on my iPhone called Enlight. At first it was just a fun way to pass time because I was bored. But the more I played with the tools on Enlight the more I was liking the results.

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Here is the photo I stared with.
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This is the final results from playing with the photo app. This design stuck in my head for a week. I kept thinking it would look really cool as a painting. As soon as I had some free time I started planning on how I would start the painting.

I began by doing an abstract underpainting on a 10x10 canvas, using burnt sienna, cooper, green and yellow ocher. Once that dried I wanted to add texture, something to match the background of my altered photo. I came up with the idea to use an old netted body scrub thingy. ( see photo below )

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I cut a piece off of the netting and laid it onto the canvas. I used a warm gray and a yellow gray lightened with white to paint over the netting. Pulling the netting off created the result I was looking for. Once I was satisfied with the background I let it set a few days. Mainly because I ran out of play time. This break also allowed me to ponder the next step, painting the honu.
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I ended up painting the honu bigger then I planned. I began with his shell and head, then moved onto the flippers. I used all the same colors I used for the underpainting for the honu. The results of my finished painting was better then I imagined.

I'm going to do this painting again with a 20x20 canvas. I plan on making the honu smaller and I'll add the corner details from my concept image. I think that added detail will give the painting the Hawaiian feel I'm going for.

Thank you for reading my blog. I hope you enjoyed it. Please feel free to comment or ask questions below and share it with your friends on facebook and twitter.


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Peggy Collins link
7/8/2017 09:09:12 am

Each and every picture is beautiful in its own right! The photograph you started with is lovely, with gorgeous sea colors and a serene feeling. The picture you developed with the app is completely different but with a Hawaiian theme, as you say, and very intriguing. Your painting is wonderful...I love the background. Thanks for describing how you achieved it. I hope you're making every one of the images you shared available for sale!

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Darice Machel McGuire link
7/13/2017 07:57:13 pm

Thank you for your lovely comment Peggy. The painting sold within a few hours of posting it on Facebook. But I do have prints available on www.daricemachel.com.

Darice

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