Next part to work on is the head and turban. As the original photograph I based my work on has blond hair dressed into a bun, I looked for examples on the internet and found a very beautiful Nigerian female with a turban style head dress and worked from this.
Several days and re-thinks later I am reasonably happy with her. I will revue this when I have painted in the robe, it may need to be patterned as well!
Kathryn Raffell, 2015, Untitled, Acrylic on canvas, part of larger work – 180cmx120cm.
Now onto the main pattern area of the robe. I have never worked over such a large area of repeating pattern. Taking advice from my tutors I have started. Sketching in the bold areas to work on first and I’ll see how they look. If ok, I will lay down the first colours and work on balancing everything so that it works together.
Kathryn Raffell, 2015, Untitled, Acrylic on canvas, part of larger work – 180cmx120cm.
The final stages will be to add highlights and shading to add balance. I am finding it challenging to mix the colours exactly the same in the repeating pattern of the robe as I work from the top down towards the bottom of the kimono.
