Hello Hivers! Lazy artist here (well kinda hardworking nowww馃槑). Here's a commissioned piece I made titled "Rose-Cherry lips". I'm basically just going to be writing on the process/steps I took to complete this piece.
The very first step was of course my cousin telling me what she wanted. She showed me a picture of what she wanted me to paint and I looked at a couple of other references to come up with my own style. After which, I Immediately went ahead to stretch a 20' x 16' canvas and primed it. I'll probably make another post later on, on how I stretch and prime my canvas.
step 2: I proceeded to make a sketch (free hand). What I Initially had in mind was just a lip and two cherries but I thought, "that'll be too bland". So I added a rose on the side鈽猴笍.
- Step 3: Background, check!! I needed to get the background done first things first. That was easier for me. If I had done the lips first before the background, I would have needed to go back again to adjust the edges of the lips (don't know if you get this part 馃槄). I'm so in love with this background and it's the first time I've tried something like this. I initially wanted to paint the whole area around the lips with skin colour but that would have been too basic.
- Step 4: Time for the lippy lip! Firstly I did a light wash over the lip to cover the white canvas. Doing a light wash makes it easier for me to apply a second layer of colour better. For the lips I used cadmium red.
Working on the upper lip first, I established my darks and highlight. Same thing for the lover lip. Then I painted the teeth with white and a light mix of dark purple.
Here's a close shot
- Lastly I worked on the rose and the cherries 鈽猴笍. I thoroughly enjoyed painting the rose. I didn't think I would've been able to pull it through at first. But I tired and it's not so bad馃尮馃尮
First layer of colours
Second layer
The cherries (blocking my darks and establishing highlights)
So here's the final outcome. I love, love everything about this work. The cherries look so yummy馃構馃構. I plan to get it framed tomorrow, but I just couldn't wait to post this. So here it is!
Title: Rose-Cherry Lip
Acrylic on canvas
20' X 16'
Thank you for taking your time to read through, see you next time馃.