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The finished painting. I really like her, I can’t believe I found a mannequin to photograph.
‘nosferatu - laughing mannequin’ painting. This is the photograph I took of a laughing mannequin. I really like her mouth, and this painting will look good with the other two mannequin paintings I did. I did the drawing last night.
I started the painting. This is going to take a really long time. I found an old ‘diamond’ necklace to use as a reference for painting diamonds. It used to belong to my friend Brenda’s great grandmother. I’ll put it on and take a photo of myself in it for fun. I started with a pink tinted gesso for the painting. I projected the image onto it, then did the pencil drawing, and then started painting it. I also work with a printed reference photo. I like to exaggerate the colours and make it a bit more like a painting than a photograph. I love colour.
Finished the necklace. I might add a bit more to it.
My friend’s grandmother’s diamond and pearl necklace. I wanted to look at it for inspiration while I was painting the mannequin’s necklace.
Me, wearing the earrings and necklace.
It took me an hour and a half to paint a few feathers. This is layer one, so I’m going to have to do another layer on top of this one, or maybe two layers to get it to look good.
Working on the background now. It’s slow, but I like it. The feathers are taking a long time. They’ll have more detail on the second layer. I’m just trying to paint the areas the right colour at the moment. The drawing is detailed, but vague at the same time. I have to constantly refer to the photograph to figure things out.
I finished the first layer of paint on the top of the head, and I did some more of the background on the right-hand side. Lots to do yet. I tried a few sequins to see what they were going to be like, and it didn’t seem too bad. There are just a lot of them.
I did some more work on the feathers and background on the left-hand side. I wanted to finish them, but it was 3 a.m. and I was tired, so I stopped. I’ve started a small swirled abstract painting as an experiment. I like seeing two colours swirled together when I’m mixing paint, and I like the way it looks.
The top part is finished, now I can finish the sequins at the bottom. Then I can do the second layer.
I finished the sequins at the bottom of the painting. I’ve started layer two on the right hand side at the bottom. I like it so far.
I did another layer on the hat, and I started the second layer on the top of her face. I’m going to keep going, and work my way down.
I painted all of the skin. I just have to do a bit more on the sequins, and the feathers, and she’s done. Then I can start the ‘opera singer’ nosferatu painting.