progress again

I was not liking the way the baby's head was looking especially with the hair. I pretty much re did a lot of the colors of the face and tried to blend the colors better overall in the painting.

More changes

By this point of the painting I had changed my mind about the background and I tried to get the colors of the baby and the mother as solid as possible.

painting

At this point I wasn't sure what colors to do for the baby's clothing. I knew I wanted to do a Mexican textile themed fabric, or at least colors that would be influenced by the Mexican culture. Jeniva had suggested to incorporate the Mexican soccer team jersey into the baby's clothing. I was also going to leave a space for the emblem.

adding a background

As I was painting I couldn't decide on a background, but I couldn't leave the canvas white. At least with some color I was able to see if I liked it or not.

more color

The photograph I had as refrence had a lot of contrast and lots of white. I didn't want to do the painting as an exact copy of the photograph so I made some decisions on what their clothes should look like.

More paint

Adding more paint. deciding on a color palette.

Progress

Still very early on with the painting. I took a lot of photos of the progress of the painting as the days went by.

Begining of a Painting

I was asked by my friend, Jeniva, to do a painting for her wedding as a gift to her fiance, Gabriel. I started sketching out the image of Gabriel as a baby with his mom holding him for the painting. This was the very first part of the painting process and I used an old photograph as reference.

Voluptuous Vixen

This is another sketch for the other blog that I'm keeping up with. The topic is Voluptous Vixen and I decided to draw Eve from the story of Adam and Eve. She is offering you the forbiden fruit as it covers part of her body. This was a quick sketch.