New series idea - 'girls in glasses'

kailah84 · Joined: 09 Jan 2010 Posts: 5 Location: Sydney

Hi everyone

I'm still only really new to art forum, there's sooo much going on here it's hard to keep up! Although, there are a lot of great artists on here too and I'd really love to hear any input you have on my new series I'm thinking of putting together... I'm not completely sure if it will work or if I'm kinda wasting my time with it.

I haven't really done any proper 'series' of work before but I'd really like to try and put some kind of themework into my slowly increasing portfolio

Here's a couple of sketches of the initial idea, I'd really like to turn them into a series of maybe about 10 bright acrylic paintings on canvas, each of a different girl...
I'm also a bit stuck on what to do in the background, these are taken from pics of friends at parties but I'm not sure if I want to incorporate that into the background of leave it kind of abstract with colours/light?

btw I'm based in Sydney's Sutherland Shire - would love to hear from other artists in the area! Smile

Thanks!
Kylie

belle2 · Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 189 Location: Newcastle

This sounds like a good idea. My advice would be to work from live models as works drawn from photographs usually look too flat. Alternatively set up your own photo shoot where you control the light (and therefore the tone) of your work.