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Originally Posted by John Reidy
Therefore the white habit in its highlights and shadows needs to be lighter than the highlights and shadows of the flesh tones. Check the values and their relationships.
Very nice in its feel. You have captured for me a spirit that dwells in goodness. Please don't get frustrated. Keep going.
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Thank you, John for the compliment. It does spur me on! Mother Theresa Fitzmaurice was only 29 years old when she purchased the 55 acres and began to build this beautiful motherhouse in 1905. Pretty incredible for a woman 100 years ago. This part of Cleveland was considered the boonies back then and allot of people thought she was crazy!
As far as the white of the habit. I will keep this in mind. I have not really addressed the painting of the habit yet.
Tom, you are exactly right about the "styalized eyes". I know that is what I am guilty of because I cannot see detail. I have attached a blown up view so you can see how vague the eye is. When I look with a magnifying glass at the photo it even looks like someone at one time drew a line around the iris. (There are a couple very sad looking drawings of this photo in archives!)
Even though I am using a "sit-in" and laying in what I see, when I look at the photo it no longer looked like Sr. so then I reworked the eye and it went back to YUCK. I will keep in mind your thought of straight lines then curved. So basic, yet I forgot this bit about drawing I learned! It is amazing ALL that you have to think about when painting. To concentrate on one aspect I seem to lose something else . . . By the end of the day yesterday, I was happy when I looked at it upside down and it still looked like a human form - I AM still in grade school
