{"id":2102,"date":"2012-05-10T17:43:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T00:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winifredsgallery.com\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2021-04-18T16:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T23:14:45","slug":"winifred-whitfield-turns-photographs-to-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winifredsgallery.com\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"Winifred Whitfield Turns Photographs to Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photographs often serve as my inspiration, but I love creating portrait and fine art paintings. Whether the photograph is taped on on a wall to view or exist as an underlying layer in Corel Painter, my mission is to go beyond – far \u00a0beyond the photograph which inspires me to create a painting.<\/p>\n

The following image progression represents just such a process. \u00a0I wish I could say that when I started to paint \u00a0I know where I am \u00a0going – that I have envisioned the final painting. \u00a0The fact is that \u00a0is rarely the case. \u00a0My paintings are created one brushstroke or one vision at a time ,as in – just keep putting one foot in front the other. \u00a0I just follow inner vision. Often I close my eyes to envision the \u00a0that next step and it always comes. \u00a0For sure, nothing will happen if one does not start. So, I support you in starting, in experimenting, in playing. \u00a0I paint everyday because I love it. I learn something new everyday.<\/p>\n

The following image progression represents one such artistic journey for me:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reference image – a boudoir portrait. I knew I wanted to subdue <\/strong>the colors <\/strong><\/p>\n

and to soften and paint all with brushstrokes and to darken <\/strong>her<\/strong><\/p>\n

bright sparkling eyes, <\/strong>to remove photographic detail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I \u00a0changed the color pallet of the image before creating a
\nclone with painterly \u00a0brush strokes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Now I was on my on and\u00a0 I would paint the remainder from imagination.
\nI felt she needed a hat and I painted one.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I started to envision details – like flowers on her hat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A color scheme continued to emerge. \u00a0I was not happy with the hands<\/strong><\/p>\n

in the original image \u00a0– not for hands in a classic portrait.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I painted a hand thinking of the grace and stylized long tapered<\/strong><\/p>\n

fingers seen in classic portraiture.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is the final painting, its character, visual and emotional<\/strong><\/p>\n

content has been altered and it is sensuous in a different way.<\/strong><\/p>\n


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