A Portray of Mom and Son with Miró (Gallery Goers Collection)

I’ve had a few folks request to see extra of my work. I’m glad to oblige! And because it’s Mom’s Day this weekend, I assumed, what may very well be extra good than to share the development of a portray of mom and son?

From my Gallery Goers ongoing sequence, this portray reveals a mom and son in an intimate huddle, dealing with away from the portray on the wall. What’s it they’re taking a look at so intently on the boy’s cellphone? Is it a picture of the portray behind them or one of many many Miró work within the room? I wish to suppose so. For me, the son has mentioned, “Mum, take a look at this!” And he or she does.

As at all times on this sequence, there’s a visible connection between the gallery goer (on this case, not a viewer of the seen portray!) and the portray on the wall. I’ll allow you to uncover what it’s 😀

So let’s get into this submit!

First, the ultimate piece. (Observe: the next images have been shot with my iPhone so the small print aren’t fairly what they need to be.) The portray is accessible from Peninsula Gallery.

First, let’s take a look at the thumbnail…which became two thumbnails.

As you may see, my first thumbnail reveals solely a portion of the figures. I made a decision I just like the full-length pose a lot that I did one other thumbnail to incorporate it. You’ll see too that I modified the boy’s shirt to a light-weight worth.

First I drew up the picture on UART paper with vine charcoal. I wished to get the location of the figures proper however I didn’t have to be too detailed with drawing them as I knew I may alter as I went.

After which I began in with pastels!

Right here’s the primary layer virtually completed. Typically I attempt to use the identical color to cowl all the identical worth areas eg all the sunshine areas are indicated with one color and so on. Right here, I made a decision to make use of completely different colors within the completely different worth areas. You’ll be able to see within the mild, I used a pale blue and a yellow whereas for the mid-value areas, I used some inexperienced and some ochre. And for the darks, I used black and purple. You additionally see that I’ve simply began enjoying round with the following layer (see the girl’s high).

And listed below are extra layers added. You’ll be able to see that the boy’s pants, the partitions, the portray itself, and the ground, nonetheless solely have one layer.

Within the subsequent picture, you may see a couple of adjustments:

• All of the white speckles from the paper obliterated from the boy’s pants
• Their ft resituated in relation to one another
• Some work on the solid shadow beneath the portray
• Forged shadow added to the boy’s shirt
• And a few different issues (can you discover them??)

Now it’s time for some last tweaks. Issues like:

• The place of the mom’s arms
• Grounding the figures to the ground with a slight reflection on the ground
• Some blue was added to the inexperienced within the portray (I didn’t like how flat it regarded in contrast with the remainder of the portray)
• Extra work on the ground.

Listed here are the Unison Color pastels I used (from my set).

And right here it’s in black and white (together with the thumbnail) so you may see the worth areas

And that’s it for this time! I’d love to listen to your ideas about this portray of mom and son!! Please do depart a remark.

Completely happy Mom’s Day to all you great moms on the market!! And a heat heartfelt hug to those that now not have their Mums round to inform them, in particular person, how a lot they love them. I’m fortunate, I can nonetheless try this – I really like you Mum!! ❤️

Till subsequent time,

~ Gail

PS. And in case you’re curious, right here’s the original Miro painting: