- RainbowLight
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Join date : 2020-11-05
Age : 58
Dreaming of Avalon - acrylics painting
Mon Aug 07, 2023 11:36 am
I've started a new painting last week. I'm intuiting and painting and somehow it proves to be a bit of a struggle to get things right. I always paint intuitively but usually I have a clearer image of what I want to paint before I begin. This time I did not.
More work done. This painting doesn't come easy. I keep having to make big corrections, something I normally rarely have to do.
I'm making progress nonetheless.
I shortened the tree, for which I had to redo part of the background. This needs to be soften more as the transition of colours is rather abrupt now.
But I like it better with the shorter tree
And added the priestess. She has the tiny typical blue moon tattoo on her forehead that initiated priestesses of Avalon had. This means her dress should've been blue, but I didn't want all/most of the dresses to be blue.
A close up of her:'
More work done. This painting doesn't come easy. I keep having to make big corrections, something I normally rarely have to do.
I'm making progress nonetheless.
I shortened the tree, for which I had to redo part of the background. This needs to be soften more as the transition of colours is rather abrupt now.
But I like it better with the shorter tree
And added the priestess. She has the tiny typical blue moon tattoo on her forehead that initiated priestesses of Avalon had. This means her dress should've been blue, but I didn't want all/most of the dresses to be blue.
A close up of her:'
- RainbowLight
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Join date : 2020-11-05
Age : 58
Re: Dreaming of Avalon - acrylics painting
Wed Aug 09, 2023 11:12 pm
As it is I've done a lot more work. The stairs have be redone, different colour too. Added the apple tree that goes with Avalon, stone circle etc.
The path leading from the stairs was much lighter at first, and to be honest I really loved it!
But then the priestess in front of the statue didn't stand out enough. I considered changing the colour of her dress, but decided against that.
I'm not sure yet whether or not I will paint one more priestess on the stairs, which was my original idea.
The path leading from the stairs was much lighter at first, and to be honest I really loved it!
But then the priestess in front of the statue didn't stand out enough. I considered changing the colour of her dress, but decided against that.
I'm not sure yet whether or not I will paint one more priestess on the stairs, which was my original idea.
- RainbowLight
- Posts : 335
Join date : 2020-11-05
Age : 58
Re: Dreaming of Avalon - acrylics painting
Sat Aug 12, 2023 6:57 pm
Here's the finished work.
I'm happy with it!
The colours are not quite so bright/yellow in the real painting, but I can't get it right with my Xiaomi :/
I'll add a close up so you can also see the blue moon sickle tattoos on the foreheads of both priestesses.
Technically the one in orange/tan dress should be wearing a blue dress as they got the tattoo once initiated and then they wore woad-dyed blue dresses. But alas... Artistic freedom.
Maybe her blue one was in the wash, haha.
I'm happy with it!
The colours are not quite so bright/yellow in the real painting, but I can't get it right with my Xiaomi :/
I'll add a close up so you can also see the blue moon sickle tattoos on the foreheads of both priestesses.
Technically the one in orange/tan dress should be wearing a blue dress as they got the tattoo once initiated and then they wore woad-dyed blue dresses. But alas... Artistic freedom.
Maybe her blue one was in the wash, haha.
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