JFlah's Blunders

This is the end result. You can tell where I added, but to the untrained eye it won't be noticeable. It has become common place for me to "add" bits and pieces to photographs of people when I'm not granted the opportunity to take my own photo. If I can't find a replacement part online within the first few minutes of searching (because it is difficult to find a photograph that has the body part I'm looking for photographed at just the right angle, and/or if the angle is right, in a usable resolution) I often end up "painting in" whatever bit or piece that I need to make the composition work for me. The reason I'm thinking about this right now is that I did a baptism slide this week and I had to add an elbow. Since the slide isn't closely scrutinized (and is projected), I didn't concern myself with adding the perfect amount of noise to the painted part (if this was for print I would've been a bit more careful), but I started to t

Ok - so as I was doing some personal research I came across a video about color theory that blew my mind. It's worth watching not only because it's cute (and isn't trying to sell you anything at the end of the video) but because it sounds plausible. What do you think? Is there pink light?

Color pencils on butcher paper - approx. 8"x10" - July 2013 I'm so out of practice that it's embarrassing. I didn't even get close to catching her likeness. I fudged on the hand, didn't do a nose - just erased the first few attempts. Didn't help that the source photo was blurry. Anyway, this is my maternal grandmother - probably somewhere in her 40s. Mom said that she was asked who told her mom to get into the wheel barrow and she said that it's likely that she got in there herself - she was just that kind of person. I will forever remember her as the woman who beat me at checkers without the least bit of mercy (her toothless mouth laughing as she relished the victory), loved Campbell's cream of mushroom soup and knew just about everything there was to know about quilting.