Yesterday I started to to paint a picture of rain as part of my assignment. I chose this beautiful picture from Flickr for reference.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdphotography-art/6532347277/
Had to make more changes.. the pic shows crowded city with cars and lights .. might end up too much for me . I love more clear space in my painting.. so I simplified it keeping few people. The lamp post was beautiful so I had to keep that too .. as for the street lights I moved them to fit in my composition.
So my sketch was way different from the reference.
While coloring I chose to keep the dress red.. it was too dark in the reference, I made it better and to match the dress I used Opera pink umbrella.. may be too bright for a rainy day pic but it doesn't matter for me . I wanted it brighter 馃榿
Flowe
Flowed Payne's grey with little ultramarine and violet for the background to buld up distant shapes and green for the trees... And then it happened.. we lost power. So I had to abandon it for the day and continue it today.
Added lights and other characters
A4 300 gsm Baohong paper
About 1hr time