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Fine artist, Christina DiMeo, shares in-progress and completed paintings. Work includes commissions, portraits, landscapes and still-lifes. Christina DiMeo currently lives and works in Minneapolis, MN.
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Here is the critique I received on this drawing so far:
"See how you have a little "halo" where the background stops, then the head starts on the left of your drawing? Bring the background right up to the head and loose the line so that your eye translates it into shape against background. I can't see the photo well but it either one of two scenarios: a light shape against a darker background (firm edge) or a darker shape (—is there a little shadow on that side of the head?) against a somewhat lighter ground. If it is the later, bringing the background up to the head will create a soft edge which will gently turn it and allow the sense of a solid form.
Look at the Paxton portraits. Very often the firmer "line" is actually the line between light and shadow ON the head rather than the edge of the head. Anything that "outlines" negates the sense of the 3rd dimension."
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