Wedding Painting

Finished the background today and un-peeled the masking fluid to show all the subjects on the painting.

Wedding Painting

Here are a couple of updates from today. I've put in the groom and have been working on the wall, the first photo showing how I laid out and painted in all the stones and the bottom showing how I've layered on top to make the stones more 'stone like'.

Wedding Painting

This painting is 24x20" and will be of the bride, groom, daughter and all their animals in the setting of where the wedding will take place. Yes, that's right, of where the wedding will take place as it hasn't actually happened yet! It's also a surprise present for the groom so we've had to be very sneaky, getting photos of everyone in their wedding outfits which proved quite tricky with the groom but we finally got one last week. That's also why he's currently stuck on the canvas as a piece of paper as I've had to put everyone in separately and am waiting to hear if I've put him in the right position before I commit to drawing him on. Unfortunately, this means that I can't get on with the rest of the painting until he's confirmed as I need to paint the wall in next and would prefer to not have to do so before he's in place and once the wall is painted, I can paint everyone infront of the wall.

Stevie, Misty and Jimmy - Finished!

I've finally finished! This painting has taken me longer than normal but it was quite a different painting for me, for starters it was bigger than the norm at 24x20" and then there were so many colours in the coats to consider but I really enjoyed it and even I'm quite pleased with the result and that's saying something!

Stevie, Misty and Jimmy

So... very... nearly... there......... Only Stevie's ear to go but I'm having to stop for the day before my eyes go completely cross eyed! :-D

Stevie, Misty and Jimmy

Slowly getting there!!

Stevie, Misty and Jimmy

I made a start on and managed to finish Misty's face today, hopefully picking up on the roan details in the fur. It's quite tricky for me to paint things I'm not seeing infront of me so I hope I've done okay! I then made a very quick start on Stevie's ear but will get started properly another day as I now have to rearrange my 'studio'. Sadly, even though this is my full time job, I don't have a dedicated studio and this room also has to be the guest room, ironing room etc and as I have a friend coming up from Bristol for the night, I need to move everything into the corners just so I can get out the air bed for her. If anyone has an insulated wooden shed they fancy donating to me to become my studio, please let me know!

Stevie, Misty and Jimmy

Latest update. Misty is proving to be far easier colourwise so I've made quite a bit of progress today. I've also made some tweaks to Jimmy.