Pearls and Snow

The more I study this woman's extraordinary work, the more I'm inspired to paint it. Oddly she only painted a few pieces and then just kind of vanished. So where ever she may be, I hope these Tribute paintings make her happy and that she feels I've justice to her incredible talent.

To see her original painting that I used as a reference, please see my scrap gallery.

I did the usual things here - changed the eyes and lips, distortions of features with the help of photoshop, changed the head dress to something a bit different and added the black pearls - I also made the coat look more like velvet (or tried to) instead of fur because I have a long velvet coat like that and thought it would be kind of cool. And I added the snow because it all looked so cold, like New Years or something.

I changed a few other things here and there and of course the color, curves and contrast. Hope you enjoy.

Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite
7 hours
Photo/Painting Reference used (please see scraps)