I've done several portraits for friends, family and friends of family. I decided for fun to record the process of my latest one. I've already done one painting for the same person of Tina Turner for his wife. They want to rock n' roll a room in their home. He's a huge Sammy Hagar fan so we're going to add Sammy to the mix.
Here's Tina:
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Sammy is going to be a little different than Tina. With Tina it's all about the movement, shaking your tail feathers. No airbrush or blending I wanted thick paint and heavy brush strokes with a lot of movement. Sammy's about ball's out good old fashioned in-your-face guitar rock n' roll.
Step 1 is to get as much info as possible. He chose a photo he liked and a color scheme. Sammy's gotta have red there's no other option. It needs purple in there though to tie it into the room and the Tina Turner painting.
Step 2 Put Sammy on the stereo (that's a really big ipod for those under 20) and hit shuffle! You gotta have the right mood to paint.
Step 3 Put the picture on canvas. I made 2- 24" x 30" canvases one for Tina and one for Sammy. I then use a thumbnail around 5" at the longest and project that onto the canvas.
Step 4 Start with the back ground. There's more than one way to rock and there's more than one way to paint. Everyone has their preferences. I always work from back to front and darkest color to lightest.
I blocked in the basics with a wide flat brush. I just slapped this on acrylics don't blend easily so this stage was color foundation and texture. The background is purple and blue smokey stage fog lit by colored stage lights.
Step 5 I am using my airbrush to even out the colored smoke. I want the background transitions to be smooth so that the bold strokes of Sammy jump at the viewer.
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| Left Side Before |
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| Left Side After |
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| Right Side Before |
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| Right Side After |
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AFTER
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Back ground is pretty much done come back for part 2 to see how Sammy turns out.
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