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Published: 2015-01-30 13:49:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 1068; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 2
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This is my first colour acrylic painting. It is on canvas, 50cm x 60cm. It was done to order and is based on a previous painting that I posted here . I was asked to do the same thing but bigger and in colour and with rasta colours in the background.I added detail to the face and tried to use an interesting range of hues including incorporating some of the colours from the background but I think I may have gone too far. The 'scrappy' background seemed like a good idea when I started and I way to fit in everything that had been asked for - but in hindsight it is harder to justify. The person I did it for was very happy but I'm not truthfully sure how I feel about it overall!
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Hi! Let's have a comment!
At first sight your work catches immediately the eye. The color range is appropriate, there's a warm atmosphere that matches with the subject you chose. I've scrolled your gallery and you are surely very good with portraits! This one seems to be a little different from all the rest. And it's well done. I like your painting style, wide brush strokes that don't leave out the attention to detail, the good contrast of colors gives depth and expressivity to the face, and the lights are positioned really accurately. Your rough (can I say it so?) way of painting matches perfecly the original style of Bob Marley.
The only thing that leaves me a bit undecided is the way you paintend the background strips. I know probably you made them asymmetrical just to calibrate the yellow strip with the face. The fact is that the warm colors of the face merge perfeclty with the yellow and red strips but the left side of the canvas gets a bit unnoticed. And even if the subject lays on the right side, the green part takes 1/3 of the canvas. The warm colors deaden it a lot. Maybe putting some cold colors shades (maybe on the right side, and so leave the strips of the same size) on the hair or on the ring could help and give more symmetry.
I'm reading that this is your first work with acrylics, sometimes I've used them too and I perfeclty know that's not easy at all, they dry quickly and are difficult to blur, so I compliment myself with you for the impressive result you achieved!
Keep it up! 
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This is a really great painting, and very impressive for a first colour acrylic painting! You clearly have a talent for acrylic 
I absolutely love the background to this - it's obviously very fitting for the composition, and you've used lovely brush strokes and blending to create it. I know it can be hard to create blending like that sometimes - I go all perfectionist and end up making it too smooth, so I' glad you've not done that, and kept the rough brush strokes visible. If anything, I'd like to see more of the red, and some darker shading on the outside red part as well - there's little bit too much green on the other side, so I don't think we're seeing as much red as we should. I'd say that the red should start from the middle of his face, and then gradually get darker from there - the yellow works best on the other side of his face
The facial composition is done really well, and I knew exactly who it was straight away. The hand are very realistic, and I love how you've done the dreads - they almost look real! Although the face is accurate I think you need to just be a bit careful with your shading - it might be better to try a more blended style next time, as he looks a little bit older here than he does in the reference picture. That's only a minor point though, as your shading is really beautiful the way it is, and I love how you've got so many colours into his skin.
Lastly, I really love how you've quite casually blended the composition into the background - this works really well. I think he needs a little more black to the right side of his head to shape it a bit more. Not too much, but just to round off that side a little bit like you've done with the left side, as it comes across as a little flat on the right. I don't think you need to add anything else to it though - your use of contrast is really good, as is your detail, so well done!
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The first thing that caught my attention was how you created his skin. It's the most noticeable difference between your version and the original. I like the varying hues and brushwork, though i feel that the hair should've been given the same attention. I know the hair is suppose to be dark, but if you were able to do something new with the skin, i don't see why you couldn't have taken the same liberties with the hair. I think mixing colors like red or orange and giving the hair the same brushwork would make it go well with the rest of Bob Marley. Still on topic with the hair, the dreads are nicely rendered, but i noticed the rest of it has some messy brushwork that make the hair look incomplete. The background colors blend really well together, and again, digging the brushwork. I know if the original, Marley somewhat blends into the background, but here, he doesn't look like he's fading into colors, and i think that could be fixed if you blend some of the background colors into Marley (instead of trying to blend the black into the oranges and red).
Besides that, great painting overall, and i hope you find my suggestions useful to you
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Very Beautiful Art. I love the coloring on this painting. I love how you drew the scrappy skin
You drew Bob Marley very well
Good luck with the future artworks, and hope you won't let hates down.
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The range of tones and colors in his face looks awesome. I like how you handled his hair - the details on a few dreads looks great, and the details contrast nicely with the looser, more painterly feel of the outer edges of his hair.
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The face probably wouldn't have had such a range of colour, but I was trying to 'go loud' to match the background and fortunately it worked out OK!
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Thank you very much!
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thank you!
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