Alex and Heidi, thank you so much for your generous comments.
Mark, thank you. This is an example of trying to get a cool diffuse north light from life effect in a portrait. I'm not able to get this kind of subtle skin modelling with all the temperature changes unless I get conditions like this. I'm trying to set up photographs that simulate north light as it would fall on a face when you work from life. It's not especially easy to do although bracketing helps - what happens in most photographs is that the lit side tends to dissolve into one light patch and big areas get blown out. (This is what I mean when I keep telling people they are too photographic; the human eye would not have seen the area in the same way.) . I hire models to sit in my studio for me so I get some regular practise with natural light work. When I shoot people under natural north light I usually still have the blown-out-lights problem. This was a commission though, and I ended up shooting my client with a strobe and soft box setup.
I hope this makes sense. This is just one way, and certainly not the
only way to paint. I don't do outdoor portraits like this, either.
My palette is pretty much the same (except for the new yellow) as what I used in
Graduation Gift.
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