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theduke
Member since Sep-23-02
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Dec-13-02, 05:52 PM ()

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"Multiple portraits"

Doing a huge magnolia flower with my wife's portraits on each flower peddle.. here is the beginning.. She is 30 now, so ifigure I can do each portrait with about a 10 yr. spread with each.. (infant, 10yrs old, 20 yrs. old, and now) I wanted to do the magnolia with a goldish color pastel but not sure on how to approach the portraits.. Should I color over them? should I fade into black from the gold? Any suggestions??

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Robert T
Member since Nov-20-02
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Dec-13-02, 07:23 PM ()

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1. "RE: Multiple portraits"

Hi Duke,

No suggestions, but want to say that this is going to be a very interesting project. Wonderful concept.

Good luck on the merge into the flower.

Bob

Greetings from Delaware

absolute

Member since Aug-24-02
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Dec-13-02, 09:09 PM ()

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2. "RE: Multiple portraits"

Duke that 1st one came out awesome.,..im not sure what the picture is as a whole,so i can picture in my mind yet what you are after......alonya is exellent with colored pencil,..ill bet she would know a few good ideas

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Phil
Member since Aug-26-02
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Dec-13-02, 09:21 PM ()

3. "RE: Multiple portraits"

Your wife is gonna kill you telling the word how old she is

So, before you die we had better help you a bit Im not too sure pastel will give you the effect you are after, I think it will just overwhelm the graphite drawing, if not just totally cover it.

I think going lightly over with a pencil crayon will be your best approach. Put down some rough tone on a piece of paper and go over with pastel and the coloured pencil and see which looks the best.

Best to experiment first than totally mess up.

Phil

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theduke
Member since Sep-23-02
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Jan-06-03, 07:15 PM ()

4. "RE: Multiple portraits"

Well here's the finished piece.. I had to scan this in 6 seperate scans then stitch together with a program called panaview.. It came out just a bit distorted but oh well.. this is 24" * 36" (huge) and the final image was about a 16mb file.. so shrinking it down to get it posted REALLY took away from the quality (I know ya'll here that all the time!) I will try and manage some closeups of the portraits if I can.. used 4h, 2h, hb, 2b, 4b, 6b, and pastels for the magnolia.. so what do ya'll think?

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theduke
Member since Sep-23-02
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Jan-06-03, 07:17 PM ()

5. "RE: Multiple portraits"

..oh yeah.. I've started on my web page and have quite a ways to go.. if you go to http://www.theduke.20fr.com and click on the drawings it will take you to a slightly larger version of this image.. but still not large enough for detail.. p.s. I will definitely be hunting down a better web server that doesn't have so many pop up banners! any suggestions?

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theduke
Member since Sep-23-02
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Jan-06-03, 07:30 PM ()

6. "RE: Multiple portraits"

here's somewhat of a closeup..

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theduke
Member since Sep-23-02
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Jan-06-03, 07:34 PM ()

7. "RE: Multiple portraits"

..and another..

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theduke
Member since Sep-23-02
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Jan-06-03, 07:39 PM ()

8. "RE: Multiple portraits"

..this one really got distorted with the stitching program.. the left eyes droops quite a bit, and believe me, the original does not look like this..

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Melissa_M

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Jan-07-03, 01:41 PM ()

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9. "RE: Multiple portraits"

It looks good--the flower and baby especially, I think. I was expecting to see another portrait on the 5th petal--it seems a bit uneven. But, overall, it's really good, and it's an interesting/neat design!

- Melissa (aka: Honey Bee)

theduke
Member since Sep-23-02
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Jan-07-03, 01:56 PM ()

10. "RE: Multiple portraits"

thanks.. I'm saving the last petal for when she is 40!!

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