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Originally Posted by Michele Rushworth
Really lovely and creative, Linda! I particularly like the very warm rim of light coming into the shadow side of her face on the right. I'm thinking a lot about lighting these days. How did you create that effect?
I also like the idea of posing the subject in front of one of her family's other paintings. I might steal that idea for something I'm doing in the fall.
And I love the color scheme, and the hair wreath. Bravo!
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The rim lighting was an accident. The photo shoot setup was a high-placed artifical cool "north light" bulb and there was incidental incandescent coming in from the right. I decided to pump up the warmth in the shadow side to offset all the coolness in the background and the cool lit side.
I stole this idea of putting the subject in front of another painting from somebody else, of course, so go right ahead!
I can't remember who, though. Sargent painted Isabella Stuart Gardner in front of that tapestry but it wasn't a huge success, was it. (And didn't Isabella's husband say of it, "It looks like hell, but it looks like you." ?)