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Lavender Farm Portrait 2 final steps. With the resist taken away, I begin on the more careful rendering of details everywhere. I just love having all these pristine light areas opened up like this.  The little girl’s eyes, face, bouquet and clothing will now have the color and shadows added.

Some more shadows, colors and details are added and the will be bringing the floral background alive. The little girls skin tones are darkened and details applied to her expression, her hat and bouquet. One step after the other and the portrait will be done.
Here it is finished. I love her smile and the little dots of light on her cheek from the sun shining thru the little holes in her hat. This painting was given to the family at Camden Creek Lavender Farm.

Lavender Farm Portrait 1. Here is the Camden Creek Lavender Farm’s grand daughter in a photograph. She is the model for this portrait.She is photographed while picking in their fields of lavender. Her smile is perfect and the way that the light filters through her straw hat is just great. The background of lavender plant rows are a wonderful source of beauty.

Here is a view of the entire layout of the fields behind the little girl with a beginning yellow base wash applied. As you look over the lavender rows going down the hill you see that there is a row of trees framing the edge of the field in the distance.Continually darker washes are applied in greens between the purple and pink rows of lavender and I see the perspective of the fields showing as the little girl comes closer to me in the foreground because of it. This change is giving us a great separation between her and the fields.

Lavender and deep purples darkened the flowers in the foreground. One of my favorite times begin As I start to remove the resist and see the whites left in reserve for the final detailing I recognize one of my favorite things.

Some people criticize an artist for using masking fluid. I don’t think there is anything wrong with it. The application of resist allows me to freely and boldly apply strokes of color in wide areas. You can’t improve on paints being able to freely intermingle with a free spirit. Happiness is, dropping bright pools of color just where you want them to spread.

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