Watercolour Portrait of Justin
by Joan-Violet Stretch
Title
Watercolour Portrait of Justin
Artist
Joan-Violet Stretch
Medium
Painting - Watercolour On Daler Board
Description
This idea was to try out Leonardo da Vinci's style in portraiture with the slight smile and the landscaped background of the Mona Lisa with Hesketh Park, as the intended landscape for the project. Jillian did look like a fairer version of the Mona Lisa and doing a male version of this iconic portrait style with Justin worked too. I love the eyes, and I did it with my own child models, my children, and watercolour, a difficult medium with precision of this subject as most people apply it loosely a mistake is not affordable as that cannot be corrected with this medium. The children did sit for me for these portraits at home, as I added the landscape after from photos working out the prospective aspect of their size and pose, a difficult task. I used to do my art to the full in those days, maybe the 1980's was my best time in art when I was really serious about it and had exhibitions, even having a few articles in the Local newspapers, also a slight appearance on TV with Martin Henfield's show and painting competition; the work shown then was my portrait of Lowry a contemporary creation, called Lowry's painting suit, I even painted some of his matchstalk men in that painting; you can find Lowry's Painting Suit on here in my portrait galleries.π This portrait is only in small resolutions, I will upload a better one when I redo another.
πThe resolutions are much higher now as I've uploaded a larger format recently but it may have a slight blur on large prints, this is unavoidable as the painting is behind glass framed and sealed and was very difficult to photograph without reflections, the slight blur looks quite artistic on a portrait and suits the work very well, love the green striped shirt detail that co-ordinates with the landscape background so well
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January 16th, 2016
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