Painting of woman plucking flowers

Good Morning 😃!!

I hope all my readers are basking in the morning sun of November. सर्दी की धूप is the best part of wintry season I feel. The fall colors, sunny days ...aah cannot ask for it to get more beautiful. Got a little deviated from our regular talks 😁. Coming back to our very own lane of arts, I finished another canvas last Friday which I started many many months ago. After initial work I kept it aside because I wasn't confident if I could finish it. I didn't believe if I had what it takes. So far, I have not drawn and painted a regular human face. I did paint faces in Madhubani works, but they were merely single shade of color. In the current work, I had to draw face with shades of skin color...how it varies when light falls on one side of the face and how the other side gets a shadow. I get pretty nervous when drawing a human face with shades. That is pretty much unexplored territory because I felt it was too hard for me. I avoided working on this canvas for many months. I would rather paint something new or craft something else. But somehow by end of Oct, I felt I should give it try. If  it doesn't work out, I could always repaint and use it for a new work. If I didn't try, I would never know how far I can go. So I started working and here is how it looks now. It might not be the best painting, but am very proud of myself for trying it and finishing it 😊.

I used acrylic paints on a 50cm x 40cm canvas. To draw the jewelry I used metallic gold acrylic and pearl metallic acrylics. For drawing design on her dress I used silver marker from Edding. And for painting the grass I used sketch pens of different green shades.

I was inspired by a similar image from internet. I traced the image using grid technique to get right proportions. This method is also the very first time I used it 😊.

I started with the night sky and the grass. 

After this, I avoided this canvas for a looooong time as I said earlier. After believing in myself, I started again in the last week of Oct. I finished the night sky which took a lot of time.

I used different shades of green acrylics to draw the leaves at the bottom.

I took little bit pink and white acrylics and loaded them onto the brush to draw these flowers.

The face was the most difficult thing I attempted in this work. It took a lot of time.  But I was satisfied at the end. All that time was worth it 😃.

Adding some jewelry...

She looks pretty, doesn't she ?

For the grass, I used several green shades of sketch pens.

And done 😀...