eva in progress
check out the rest of my flickr photos to see where i went horribly wrong and then righted myself. i can tell this is going give me much grief. so many flowers. so many ways to screw up the hair. already i’m a little disappointed in the proportion of the nose. it’s too elongated and gives the child a somewhat adult look. which is what i wanted to avoid. but, seeing as i often make this mistake in my other works, maybe i should aim for making a child’s face … maybe then i’ll get the adult proportions correct. 
hate to say it … but this really does look better in person.
one of the lucky accidents was finding that one of the strips of decorated paper lies square in the middle of her face … extending from the brow down to her neck. i want to leave as much of it exposed as i can, as it reminds me of some of my previous paintings where i actually painted that sort of thing deliberately on. talk about lucky coincidence.
colors: payne’s gray and titanium white. i don’t think there will be much more than that. the background is busy enough as it is.
The Broken Forum said,
April 22, 2008 at 9:56 pm
You have to be thrilled with the way this is turning out. It is amazing…
six06 said,
April 23, 2008 at 1:10 am
i have to say that i’m quite pleased with it thus far. it’s so very different, it feels, from what i’ve done, although the technique is the same as recent works. it still feels new and different.
glad you like it, too 