This new original painting is acrylic paint with a touch of white pen for some of the highlights. The original is painted on watercolor paper and a backing + varnish is added after completed.
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This is my very first completed painting of this series and I am super happy with the way it turned out!! I spent about a year developing this style with a lot of duds honestly, but those duds helped me get to this :)
I have always been inspired by portraits and almost everywhere I look at art, it's always been portraits that catch my eye. Vintage or modern, it doesn't really matter...portraits always get me! So, I set out with portraits on my mind but I really had no idea where I was going with it. I started with some model women to get me started and I was happy with the start but the backgrounds were too boring for me. So, I started messing with florals on the background, which reminded me of like a wallpaper pattern so it took off from there. I researched some patterns and tried to match a pattern I like with the woman and here we are :)
The extra key was to bring part of the color from the background onto the woman. The green highlights on the woman just came out really well and it kind of married the two aspects of the painting a little better.
Even though I didn't exactly know how this painting was going to turn out, I kind of think this worked out perfectly with my style in general, which is kind of a combo of vintage + modern.....vintage with the wallpaper style and modern with the portraiture.
I hope you like it. Thanks and always feel free to reach out to me with any questions.
Here are some nice pretty photos that I took of the art prints for this painting. They are sized 11x14in. and that includes the 1in. white border.
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Original Portrait Painting by Billi French - Woman on Green Floral Wallpaper
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