Tag: coffeecup
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One lump or two?
This is a portrait of Reddit user Fragrance_Ad7220 from a post on /r/CoffeeGoneWild. I loved the play of light and shadow, especially across the big, curved surface of her skin. This is another coffee cup painting, which I have decided will be an ongoing theme for me. I think the juxtaposition of sexuality with the…
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Cheers to Sunday
Painting of /u/MakingBeauty from a post titled Cheers to Sunday. This is a digital painting, using a slightly modified version of the default acrylic tool. Vivid, solid colors and some very fun foreshortened limbs going into this portrait made it a challenge. I was not too surprised that even with trying to focus on getting…
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Study group – values 2
Exercises from week 2 of the Love Life Drawing study group. We continue to work on value simplification, this time with photo reference. The previous week, working from John Singer Sargent paintings, we had the benefit of an artist having already simplified the messy world into a composed work; we just further reduced them. Life…
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Big cup for a cold morning
Charcoal portrait of Reddit user gfykay, using Procreate on the iPad, based on this photo. I have a thing for coffee cups. I don’t know what that’s about, it just is. Her picture was a delightful tease, and she gave me permission to do a painting of it. I think the results are reasonably good.…
