Self: Meghan Howland Artist copy

Adrift (30 x 40)

Oil on Canvas

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 This piece is an artists copy of Meghan Howland's surrealistic oil painting labelled  "Adrift". However, in my painting instead of using  oils I used acrylics in order to portray the visible brushstrokes and subtle colours.  

This is one of my favourite paintings that I have done so far within this project, I feel like I was able to capture Howland's subtle brushstrokes that were visible in the background and in the face and I felt like I captured this aspect despite using a different medium (acrylics). I liked the visible and energetic brushstrokes within my painting as I feel it adds to this dreamlike atmosphere that you know it's not actually real but it feels real. 

I believe I was able to capture the skin tone really well by blending the colours which help to add to the realism of the piece however the skin looks slightly yellow in places to add shadows but in the original it was more pink. I possibly could've translated this over better if I used more white and pink than yellow to resemble the piece. I love the lighting created by adding little bits of white of the top of a layer, like on the nose, it helps to make the piece more realistic. 

I feel like I could added more white when blending colours for the flowers because at the moment they look slightly flat compared to the original. The blue I used also differed from  the original. So, if I were to create this copy again I would need to carefully  look at the colours and mix them accordingly.

At times I feel like the proportions slightly differ from the original piece I think I had to enlarge the body slightly in order to fit all the flowers in and in my version the model face is turned towards the viewer rather than to the corner. It was quite to decipher what some of the shapes were so it was rather difficult to represent them in a truthful way I had to change shapes slightly in order to incorporate all the shapes in the painting because I thought I didn't have enough space. But if I were to do this painting again I think  I would look at the proportions in more detail and be quite strict when drawing up the plan in order to make everything fit on the page.