Hue Family Practice

Man, am I feeling more balanced.  After a couple weeks in the high intensity range of life, I am grateful to have made some space to catch up on my spreadsheets, go through the junk drawer, and paint!  Yesterday morning I made tea and spent yet another second missing the chance to be on the beach with my boyfriend this weekend, and then an additional moment wishing I was headed to the Badminton flush Easter dinner at my friends house, before getting back to work.  A session or two later when the gal at my favorite Indian Food spot, Bombay, asked me how many people I was ordering delivery for, I would only divulge that I wanted three sides of rice so there were leftovers.  It was a ton of food for one.  

Before getting to my head study homework I had to finish this still life for Sugar Shack, the shop I am hanging at in a couple weeks.  

'Fave Heel'

8x8"

Onto Hue Family Practice!  

The point that stuck with me the most from my last crit was that color family bit.  For this study I tried to keep this in mind and not push the light-dark value range AND the warm-cool too much at the same time.  This was done from Sorolla's Portrait of Vicente Blasco Ibanez… In just two hours I may have added 10 pounds.

The values get a little lost in the beard, but the lights aren't bad.  The light note on the bridge of the nose is too light, too big, and has too hard of an edge.  The tones as the forehead turns towards shadow are too cool, as well as the dark green note of the beard in the light side.  His right lower lip has a touch of cool that makes me want to run for the oxygen tank, but the value is pretty close to correct.  I really like the cool notes as his stubble bends back toward his right ear; I wonder if they are warm enough?

Its funny to see these two studies juxtaposed; I wasn't thinking about any of this when I painted the red pump.  It makes big temperature jumps.  Did I keep the values close enough?

Stay tuned for results show.