Since the last time I was on here I made some progress in my Flower Girl Series. The second girl is coming along great. I really need to figure out what their names are gonna be. In order to find out the inspiration for this painting check out my previous post. Now to the art.
The first thing I did was start out creating a rough sketch.
I chose the color scheme (I discussed more about that in the previous post). I began laying in the color and added the background.
Spring is here and I decided that I wanted to go back to a series of sketches that I drew and never quite painted. When I came up with the concepts for these drawings I was just thinking about how many people use complexion to determine beauty. I was researching colorism. It's sad that people are still so close minded when they look at the beauty of a woman. Beauty comes in every shade. It's really crazy when you think about it. I watched the video below, among many others and I found that it displayed many sides of this issue.
In my series I wanted to depict a group of women who were beautiful in a
variety of skin tones with different but equally beautiful hair types.
In every race especially the black race female aesthetics are also
judged by hair type and texture. I wanted to depict girls that didn't
necessarily have "Good Hair" (by the way I hate the whole "good hair"crap). Chris Rock created the best film on it (but that's just my
opinion).
Beyond those topics I was inspired by the flowers I bought from my local produce market and the primary colors. I wanted to create a series that connected a group of sisters with a variety of complexions and hair styles and textures. Here is the first of the girls. I haven't named her yet.
Anyway onto the art I started with a basic sketch(line drawing).
Then I came up with my color scheme. Next I began placing some of the colors. I began adding detail in the hair (which is my favorite part).
Yesterday I worked on painting the background. I think it came out really good.
Let me know what you think(about the painting and the videos).
