Everything shown here has been painted digitally with an electronic brush directly on the computer screen, and is NOT a digitally altered photograph.
Copies of these images may be
obtained on canvas, or paper.
To contact me about their availability and costs please e-mail ( Ted ) at tbragg@ultranet.ca
Debbie's picture posed a
real problem for me as I wanted to depict a person's hair realistically, yet I seem to
miss that photographic quality. I asked another artist for an opinion, which was to
suggest that I was overdoing its rendering, and to try instead to paint, not draw the
hair. He referred me to look at any of the self-portraits by Rembrandt.. then to block in
the hair colour as I did the face. John Hagan ,then submitted the hair as he would portray
it.
Rembrandt's site
Mail to John Hagan
Debbie as depicted by John Hagan
This lady holding a flower, is an attempt to use background colours to bring out her skin tones.
I guess you cannot see the perspiration, but I dug out the old paint-by-hand brush to try a new approach with this portrait. It's different, but I kinda like it.
Flesh tones and shading is the utmost challenge when tried on the human form where subtle
differences are all important. Here is a subject which other artists are free to add their
brush strokes of colour.
Your comments or suggestions would be most welcome.
Please E-mail Ted at tbragg@ultranet.ca