Red Woman
Well, I just managed to finish up another painting before the fall semester begins. This is the first one I’ve ever had offers on before she was even finished. That’s a new experience for me for sure. I think that part of the reason for that is that the style I used for her was very clean and streamlined so you actually could see her even in just a cell phone picture. Anyway, this one was fun to work on. As is often the case, I was worried at first that I was pulling too much from my primary reference, a photograph found online. But over time she started to come in to her own and take on a different feel. I think the biggest turning point with this one was the adopting the clean line style. I really wanted to use red, but when you try to blend red with a near white, you find yourself with pink, and that wasn’t what I wanted at all. So I started just playing with the lines, and I think it came out very well. Anyway, here she is.
So far I’ve just been calling her Red Woman. Anything else just feels silly. And yeah, I like her 🙂