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for Lyndon Roderick
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Can I thank all the wonderful artist who have left comments on my work!
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Lyndon
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This Day Last Year
I bow to you.
Compliments Italia
This is truslly masterclass
*****
Sorry about my joke! I just so really like artists like you. This is what everyone want to achieve I think..
Brilliant!
Gotti
Kostas
Beautiful work Lyndon.
Kindest Regards,
Rick
every hair in place!
inspiration!!!
Bonne journée, Aldéhy.
Amicalement.
Ray
Well done grate work. You have to look so close to see if they are painted, they are truly amazing!.
steve.
I have never been able to paint hair and I have no inhibition saying this. I shall definitely learn from your painting. This can pass-off as a photograph.
I liked the eye, the hair and the left cheek (texture) the most. Perfect color tones and best gray balance.
Give me some tips on painting hair.
Regards,
Gajanan
Thank you for your comment on my work (Peter)
In answer to how I paint hair.
When sizing a portrait I only draw the boldest part of the hair and paint the background around the hair because loose strands of hair will be painted over the background.
I then section the whole of the hair by tone. By this I mean, Peters hair for example:
You will notice three tones, White, a tone of Gray and Black. There may be more tones of Gray in other paintings but with Peters hair there is only one main Gray base tone, to the front and upper right side as you look at the painting. (this is relating to Gray hair on a colour painting, I do add colour to areas of the hair where needed)
May I also add it is important to blend the sections and not have Sharpe edges! Use your fingers, they are the best brushes on hand ( exuse the pun)
All blending work is done with my fingers. I use the brush first to apply the paint then blend with my fingers. But with detail its all with a brush!
Once you have painted these sections then I start using a very fine brush and paint the single strands as you see them. I usually start with the next darkest tone of Gray and so on. It's very tedious work and for Peters hair it took about 20 hours.
With Gray or Blonde hair you start with White and work towards dark.
If painting dark hair do the opposite. Start with Black and work towards White.
When painting loose hairs, if the strand of hair is verticle to the viewer paint it from the end back towards the head. The reason is, you will have a square end to the single hair which is how hair is, hair does not go to a point, only if it is leaving the viewer (brushed backwards) then use an away from the head brush stroke.
Study the hair for a period of time and you will see so many details you didn`t see before.
Use a fine pointed 2" brush for single hair and put in single hairs.
Put in as much detail as possible. Single hairs aren't usually one line, they break and change tone and thickness.
Hope this has helped
Lyndon
Something to aspire to, most impressive :)