Week 5 "Paint what you hear"

I did the week 5 challenge but didn't really enjoy it too much. I was too inspired from last week and wanted to paint another picture in the style of Kelly Rae Roberts. I caught up with a good friend from high school recently who has always been very encouraging when it comes to my artwork. I decided to paint her a picture, this is the initial collage I started with. I had in mind reds and greens but as you can see it didn't quite turn out that way! I put a green through the gel medium and it sort of turned out lime.......I was looking at it and thinking "I don't like it!" but I've learnt from good teachers that if you don't take it too seriously and keep going you then usually aren't afraid to try different things and end up with something great you didn't expect!

To be honest, I wasn't even happy with the way the collage turned out, it had too many dark colours and I didn't like the lime green! I then started with dark purple in mind but for some reason put white in it. I still "didn't like it!"......It was going to be warm tones but I let my creative flow do what it had to do.........

I started putting in the figures

Started with some details

I got rid of the wings and darkened the eyes as a suggestion from my boyfriend. And here's the finished product! I really enjoyed doing it, so much so, I've never finished a whole picture in one day. I finished it and gave it to my friend the next day! It's called "Kelly & Eboni"