Longing | Impressionism with colored pencils I |
Really, for me it is difficult to describe what this work means to me, I have not worked for a long time using oil paintings and it is something I really miss, one afternoon I just felt nostalgia and started looking for something to paint that would bring me a little closer to that I began to paint in oil, I devoted a whole day to this work, although for me it seemed like a very short time, no doubt time flies when we do something that fills us, the original image can be found here in Pinterest
The Process
The sketch in this work I did quite quickly using 3H pencils, almost always I work with colored pencils I prefer to wait at the time of painting to work with patience all the details, especially in the background where you can see some areas of transparencies that give the impression of being bottles and glass containers, appropriate to the ambience of the work that would logically be a bar, these details worked as if you were working with oil paintings, trying to mix some colors, contrast them with the black background , leaving some areas of brightness, using an impressionistic style.
The skin was a little more complicated, in addition to taking care of the tonality with respect to the illuminations, I had to carefully work the lights and the shadows without neglecting the texture, even though the area of the skin is not so extensive it took me about 3 hours to finish ...
The dress was quite simple, I used blue and white colors for the area of brightness, and the rest was completely black as the bottom of the bottom, at this point the work was practically ready, it was just a matter of finishing to paint black all the lower area that was missing.
The Finished Artwork
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun"
Pablo Picasso
This is so moody and expressive considering her back is to us. I would have said you used pastels if you had not told us. I really love the tension in the pose and your color choices. What an interesting quote from Picasso. It is very inspiring to me.
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This looks like a cool old style bar. The background is very complicated with different colors, shades and lights..
I like her posture. She looks like she was flirting with the barman :) I appreciate that she drinks red wine. I would go for it too :) I can imagine that you spent 3 hours on the skin as you did a lot of toning. You worked out her back nicely. She looks like she spends a lot of time in gym :)
Well done! Thank you for sharing and congratulations on your curie vote!
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Great artwork, I loved her posture, the colors, the textures! It has a load of feelings that is almost palpable. Well done and congrats on the Curie upvote!
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Wonders shall never end. Unbelievable!!! If you tell me you used 3H pencil to draw this, that means am dumbfounded and lost.
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She kinda look stress and the picture seems to be telling a story, she looks stress and sexy in that black gown. Your art is amazing... Good work!
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Great artwork there. I really see it as a real human right in front of me. Are you really sure they are pencils...... Lol
Great work you have and I really enjoyed reading every single word in your blog
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hahahaha Thanks!!!!
You are humbly welcome
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Wow! Like it! :))
Light is perfect ;)
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A very well done reproduction with coloured pencils. The colours are great, especially the black, I like it a lot.
Congrats for your curie vote =).
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What a stunning artwork, Connor! This style is very cool. Excellent job on the details!
And congratulations on your @curie vote. That was well deserved!
Thanks my friend!!
I like what you did with the lighting the the sensual suggestions. Really captures the mood and the theme longing. :D
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Wow, it's amazing! I love Impressionism and it had to be very hard to do with colored pencils. I'm delighted 👌
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She's beautiful, @connor-russo :) The lighting and colours are so expressive in this piece, that it captures her sensuality very well <3 Wonderful piece.
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