After the Slumber Party

Monday, November 23, 2009

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After the Slumber Party (8 x 10) $150

This Friday, my daughters went to a slumber party. Predictably they stayed up until one. They got up at eight. When I picked my girls and a friend of theirs up at noon, they had just finished breakfast and were wide awake and chattering. We stopped to drop our guest’s things at her house and then took all three girls to library. Chatter, chatter, chatter. A very late lunch at the Road House followed. Chatter, chatter, chatter.

It was it was 2:30 by then. The chatter continued through lunch. But Road House lunches are heavy and plentiful. Stomachs full, the girls were suddenly overwhelmingly tired. My youngest leaned against her friend and both girls would have fallen asleep right there had we let them. I snapped a picture.

Reference Photo

Today I painted it. I did my best to correct the ugly green blue light of the restaurant. I made red-purple shadows of blue green ones, and removed the excess pink from their faces.

The palette is cadmium red, cadmium yellow and cobalt blue. Which the exception of some yellow ochre along the jaw lines, those were the pigments I used on the faces. I defined the eyes, nostrils and shadows in cobalt first. Then I painted the faces working mostly wet into wet.

The girls’ hair is various combinations of burnt sienna, cobalt blue, and yellow ochre. I used these three for the brows and lashes too. I added a little phthalo blue to the jacket and the wall.

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Tags: Brows, Cadmium Yellow, Cobalt Blue, Combinations, Faces, Fine Art America, kc, Lashes, Late Lunch, Nostrils, Palette, Party 8, Pigments, Pink, Purple Shadows, robin muirhead, rss, rss feeds, Slumber Party, Stomachs, Three Girls, Ugly, Wet Girls, Yellow Ochre

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