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Aricson — Heather Graham

Published: 2007-01-29 17:53:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 2023; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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Description This little portrait was painted from the February 2003 Marie Claire magazine cover. However, I painted her dress mauve instead of white. After scanning the painting in recently, I decided to play around with Photoshop’s gradient map tool and manipulated the brightness of the dress to make it look black as shown here.

6 x 8 ¼ inches (152.4 x 209.55mm)

Materials:
Scepter Gold Winsor & Newton Watercolor Brushes
Iwata HP-B and CM-B Airbrushes
Winsor & Newton Artist Watercolors (not recommended, unless you enjoy super-staining watercolor you can’t correct or lift. I paint with only Holbein watercolors now)
Old Holland Watercolors (opposite problem of W&N watercolors, lifts too easily)
Winsor & Newton Blending Medium
Smooth 2ply ragboard
Photoshop 7: magic lasso, gradient mapping, brightness/contrast adjustment and color correction

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Comments: 28

Bellaelysium [2008-07-11 15:03:10 +0000 UTC]

You PAINT it??!!

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Aricson In reply to Bellaelysium [2008-07-11 18:50:54 +0000 UTC]

Yup! One of first airbrush paintings that turned out pretty good.

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Bellaelysium In reply to Aricson [2008-07-12 03:38:37 +0000 UTC]

pretty awesome

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ppgrainbow [2007-03-25 05:16:47 +0000 UTC]

That is a awesome outfit that she's wearing. Her blondish hair is so pretty from the way how you painted her.

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Lastxkidxdies [2007-03-07 22:02:47 +0000 UTC]

Wow, your painting is amazing

it's so realistic

how on earth do you see all of them colours

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Aricson In reply to Lastxkidxdies [2007-03-07 23:18:39 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

Color is my passion and I strive to not just copy what I see, but to express my emotions through color. Understanding color temperature and which pigments are warm and cool are essential in color mixing in watercolor. Unbalanced use in mixing cools and warms will result in muddy colors, something that I strive to overcome in each painting. I love vibrant high chroma in my colors, so I plan my color mixing very carefully. Its really not that hard, only takes a bit of preparation and homework.

Have an inspiring day and night!

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LittleBonnieBlue [2007-03-04 21:56:42 +0000 UTC]

All I can say is ... WOW and AWESOME! You do super duper work! Instant ! And your gallery is effing Awesome too! ^^

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Aricson In reply to LittleBonnieBlue [2007-03-04 22:46:27 +0000 UTC]

Thank you again for your inspiring comments!! I was having a bit of a hard day of drawing, but you have made my day with your kind words!

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LittleBonnieBlue In reply to Aricson [2007-03-10 18:16:30 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome! Nice to hear I could help you out in some way just by saying how your beautiful work made me feel! Keep up the great work .. I look forward to seeing more! ^^

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jenchuan [2007-02-19 01:39:47 +0000 UTC]

NICE JOB!!!!!!! LOVE the texture of this! Very nice!!!! Soft, and feminine. Vey nice!!

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Aricson In reply to jenchuan [2007-02-19 03:15:36 +0000 UTC]

Thank you I wish I could take all the credit, but my Iwata CM-B airbrush was a very good boy on rendering those soft tones

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jenchuan In reply to Aricson [2007-02-20 01:11:25 +0000 UTC]

Yes, but YOU "tell" the airbrush what to do!

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Aricson In reply to jenchuan [2007-02-20 02:20:27 +0000 UTC]

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Zindy [2007-02-16 12:22:08 +0000 UTC]

Looks so good and realistic. The way you do hair is so impressive. The dress looks so much like you would have used charcoal. Anyway, just beautiful

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Aricson In reply to Zindy [2007-02-16 13:37:18 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!! Praise coming from such a great artist as yourself is simply heaven! Hair and hair styles are my favorite things to paint on a woman, perhaps because I myself am so bald!

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paulineaubey [2007-02-09 16:02:01 +0000 UTC]

She is so recognizable and everything is perfect in this one: I love how you do the skin, it looks so fresh and soft!

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Aricson In reply to paulineaubey [2007-02-09 22:30:49 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! At the time I was breaking in my new Iwata CM-B airbrush, which can render super light spays that gave me a soft look. But I think somehow, I made her a little older than what she looked like in the photograph. This little portrait, as I mentioned in my comments was a turning point on how I render color: how to use temperature to render values. Using cool pigments to sculpt warm tones (or vise versa) with out turning my colors into a muddy gray. All of my early paintings, my flesh tones look like mud!

Thanks for the fav

Have an inspiring day and night!

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paulineaubey In reply to Aricson [2007-02-11 16:50:50 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for your detailed comments.
You're most welcome!

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MLBOA [2007-02-07 13:57:32 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful color work! Skin, hair, clothing, everything is very well done!

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Aricson In reply to MLBOA [2007-02-07 21:03:41 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the kind complement! The photo I worked in is much lighter, but I think she looks so much nicer in black!

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MLBOA In reply to Aricson [2007-02-08 15:06:48 +0000 UTC]

Welcome!

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sky0973 [2007-02-01 00:24:02 +0000 UTC]

She is lovely! I truelly admire your work and the details you put into it!

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Aricson In reply to sky0973 [2007-02-01 01:42:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! Details are so much fun for me!

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sky0973 In reply to Aricson [2007-02-01 01:58:12 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome sweety! I look forward to more from you! I wish I had half your talent! Sky

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Aricson In reply to sky0973 [2007-02-01 02:42:10 +0000 UTC]

I've just been really fortunate to have studied at a great atelier, Watts Atelier of the Arts [link] and more importatly studied figure drawing under master artist/illustrators Ron Lemen [link] and his wife [link] both of whom are now teaching at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art [link]

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KLSADAKO [2007-01-30 12:10:22 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic mate, I never knew she was that big in that area ^^

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Aricson In reply to KLSADAKO [2007-01-30 13:13:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Is she a major celebrity in the UK?

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KLSADAKO In reply to Aricson [2007-01-30 13:28:33 +0000 UTC]

I remember seeing a few movies with her ^^ she has a very pretty face ^^

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