Over the Hill

Day 16 has arrived in the challenge I have signed up with - 30 Paintings in 30 Days.  We are officially over half way done and I have to say that I have enjoyed the process.

Day 16 is a funny little painting originally done by Georges de la Tour "The Fortune Teller" circa 1630.  My painting is just one of the people in his original painting.  It was a struggle for me to do so much blending and matching.  I tend to paint fast and with large strokes.....this was the opposite!

I just like the expression on her face.  Kind of like she knew it would take me awhile to paint her, so she is averting her eyes and has a little snicker at my lack of patience!

Getting in the darks and shadows......

Finishing her face and starting on her head scarf......

Head scarf is almost completed.....

I could of worked several more hours on this painting but as I am trying to keep these 6 x 6 inch paintings to 1 hour and I already had 2 1/2 on this one, I deemed it complete!




Here is Day 15's lovely little painting....

Berthe Morisote's self portrait as she was aging and showing her gray hair.

Painting Berthe

I love the impressionist painters.  This was Day 6 in 30 Paintings in 30 Days, which is a artistic challenge by Leslie Saeta.

This is Berthe Morisot who was a lovely painter and a member of a circle of painters in Paris who became the Impressionsts. She lived from 1841 to 1895 in France and married Edouard Manet who originally painted this painting.

Getting my darks in....

Adding some flesh tones.....

Refining and blending the flesh tones....

Once again as on the first day, I didn't get the skin tones dark enough on her shadow side and at the end (when I posted this pic to 30 Paintings in 30 Days) I realized that her nose and lips are not centered.  But when I looked at my reference, Edouard Manet didn't center his either!


Pronunciation of Berthe Morisot (bairt mo-ree-ZO)