🎨 "Libra in progress" - shaping that butt
A few days ago, I presented the beginning of my new paintig "Libra II", where I showed you how I start building up shapes with white only on a colored ground.
Now, after painting away in my drawingly manner, more and more elements are taking shape
But with time, you also get a few things you don't want on your canvas. A little particle here, a hair of the brush there... and I find it annoying, when my surface isn't completley nice and smooth as I am used to from my glass painting. I used to carefully sand my paintings, but it can be pretty dangerous and when you don't pay attention, you sand off too much.
A few years ago, I discovered the perfect tool in a British art supply store. Mail order to be precise. It looked good from the description, and I decided to give it a try. It turned out to work even better, than I thought...
See the video on youtube
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So here you can see, where I'm at right now. I figure another day of painting and the first layer called the "underpainting" will be done.
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I had to 'crack a smile' ( this is a bad pun that probably won't translate) when I saw your painting.
It's great to see the layer like this and so interesting how detailed it is in this first orange layer. The magic orange layer that gives life and soul to so much work.
I haven't a clue what that tool is, but it looks like an odd sort of cheese knife. It seems hypnotically therapeutic to use it and after a morning of detailed painting it must be a moment of zen to run the blade back and forth across the glass making a cacophony of beautiful noises.
I'd love a 'show us your high heel' challenge. Though I am happy in wellies or riding boots, with muck and mud up to my elbows, I also LOVE shoes (being a woman it seems an innate desire) and love to wear heels when the time is appropriate.
I even appreciate heels I cannot myself wear. I have a pair of my dear (now departed) mother's heels that I keep in my studio. They represent her to me in such a way. I loved to play in her heels when I was younger, but she was a petite woman whilst I grew and grew (taking after the large stocked English ancestry of my Father's people) and could not fit into her shoes after about 13. It was a sad day for me, but the love of fancy shoes was born.
I loved my mother's shoes as she was very old when she had me but kept all her shoes from her 20's onward. SO I had decades of styles to choose from with matching handbags and even some hats to coordinate.
I know keep a pair of her tiny shoes in my studio. They represent a time when I most recall her in her glory, in a Beautiful pink Spring suit and these heels which are pink with intricate embroidered flowers on. I'll have to share a picture of them.
It's odd how such physical items can become a sort of totem and seem to hold mystery and magic to us, and high heels seem to have done this for us for centuries. In a way they are like our wooden carved totems of ancient peoples, as we imbue them with a power and attraction and in so doing, they give back in kind. A high heel shoe instantly transports us to some place, all of us.
Nice one, I mean butt, real one, not like those plastic that are popular now :) But more i like those high heels, I am girl after all @reinhard-schmid :)
Hehe.. I definitely have to start a "show me your heels" challenge for the girls around here ;-)
Hahaha, you would be disappointed in me :( I have problem with joints, broken 2x my legs because of high heels and unfortunately had to say goodbye to them. Still, love to see them :)
And when I wear them everyone look so small in the room since than I am some 185 cm high :)
A rounded bottom resting on a high pair of heels.... that’s how you’ll find me any day of the week wondering what to wear....
I want to see that! 😎
Original work!! but I don't understand what kind of material it's painted on?
Its on canvas
„The darker colors and shadows will later be added with thin oil glazes.“
Promissd-done, I see. :)
What I like is how you painted feet, one is darker the other is lighter. Already there you balanced pollarites of dark and light Knowing that we talk about balance, and feet are the symbol of moving, painting them in dark and light, moving itself is put in the balance, what underlines the whole message.
Thank you for the interpretation. Unfortunately it won't work like that in the finished painting, as this here is just the work in progress... but the thought is interesting and I might borrow it for a later version!
At this point it is still all in acrylics. Probably hard to see on a photo like this, but the oil glazes will come much later...
your art is so brilliant.
really impressive
Thank you, glad you like it :-)
Impressive artworks! Nothing to speak, it is really an evidence your greatness in art sir.
You are too kind. I'm just a humble painter. Thank you for liking my work :-)
Keep it up sir!
Wow! Im so much amazed with your artworks sir. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you very much :-)
that's another amazing one.
you did very good, my friend.
Cordial thanks :-)
"shaping that butt" :D
shape shape.... 😉