practice boards and portrait

[ghooptie]

These are a couple of boards I played around with. The portrait is of my Mother-in-Law, she got dignosed with stage 4 lung cancer that got to her brain a couple months ago. They said there is nothing they can do. It has been hard on my wife, becuase we live in the same town, and all of her sisters and brother live off in other states. She has really been a warrior for her mom and dad though. So anyhow, I painted this picture of her mom to just try to do something special for her. I am no expert by far. This is only the second portrait in color that I have attempted.

Thanks
ghooptie

[grinnen30]

Ghooptie, I am very sorry to hear about your mother-in-law. I wish there was something we all could do for her. My mom had stage 1 cancer in her lung and they believe they were able to remove the tumor and treat her properly, so she is doing well...My deepest sympathies.

On the pictures...I love the creativity, they look very cool and you show promise...but I think you need to do the same thing I am doing...dagger, dagger, dagger, dot dot dot, line line line, dagger dagger dagger...getting those down would make a world of differences. Portraits are difficult...so many little things can make a picture look off...I bet I have done 15 iterations of 2 portraits trying to get them just right...and they are still off...not to include all of the touchups...

[fresnojohns]

Ghooptie,
I am very sorry to hear about your mother in law. You did a very wonderful
thing to paint a portrait of her.
I have done very few portraits since getting back into airbrushing in 2003.
They are just hard to do. And I think anyone who has got real exact with them will tell you the same thing. When doing portraits, or lets just say any type of image that has to really be close as possible, cars, people, boats,
flowers etc., any wrong shade, line will make it into something totally different. Doing an auto could change the year or make of auto. And my
problem I had with mine makes it look just like an ordinary person and not the one you really want. There are videos out that are pretty good as far as textures. Get the best possable reference photos. And if you have to use
a projecter or even draw the grid method. Just practice and you will get it in
time.
Fresnojohns