With the end of the wedding season and a quiet period in my day-job business, I've been able to spend some more time in the studio lately. I've been working primarily with the charcoal and pastel series and thought I'd share some, with their stories, here.
I met James and Rachel late last fall. Without getting into specifics, James has had some experiences that few of us have ever had and none of us ever want. He's a very intense man who feels deeply and expresses himself honestly. Rachel is his wife. She is his rock. She's a beautiful woman through and through and, from my experience, very upbeat, outgoing, and positive. They are two halves of one being. Soon after meeting them, I knew I had to do their portraits. Both came out, I think, pretty well, and will be on their way to James and Rachel very soon.
Every now and then I'll bring one of my models into the studio for a photo session. We'll go for about an hour and take a ton of pictures. These sessions are really about getting the models to show parts of their personalities that don't come out in a crowded life session. I don't direct, no "do this, do that" - instead, it's about encouraging them to be themselves. Last fall, I did such a session with Natalie, one of our regular models. She's a lovely young woman with alabaster skin tones that are so hard to get right, and a reserved manner that hides a bit of a vamp. Over the past week or so, I've done three of her:
These were a lot of fun to do. My goal was to capture some of the playfulness that sometimes bubbles out, while keeping the mystery that's hiding behind her reserved demeanor. There was one other artwork of her, one that began in a life session but never hit the "keeper" criteria. I tried reworking it and it failed. So it's destroyed. But these turned out well, especially, to my mind, #5.
I've got another project going in the studio as well, a painting. I'll cover that one in another post.
James
Rachel
I met James and Rachel late last fall. Without getting into specifics, James has had some experiences that few of us have ever had and none of us ever want. He's a very intense man who feels deeply and expresses himself honestly. Rachel is his wife. She is his rock. She's a beautiful woman through and through and, from my experience, very upbeat, outgoing, and positive. They are two halves of one being. Soon after meeting them, I knew I had to do their portraits. Both came out, I think, pretty well, and will be on their way to James and Rachel very soon.
Every now and then I'll bring one of my models into the studio for a photo session. We'll go for about an hour and take a ton of pictures. These sessions are really about getting the models to show parts of their personalities that don't come out in a crowded life session. I don't direct, no "do this, do that" - instead, it's about encouraging them to be themselves. Last fall, I did such a session with Natalie, one of our regular models. She's a lovely young woman with alabaster skin tones that are so hard to get right, and a reserved manner that hides a bit of a vamp. Over the past week or so, I've done three of her:
Natalie #3
Natalie #4
Natalie #5
These were a lot of fun to do. My goal was to capture some of the playfulness that sometimes bubbles out, while keeping the mystery that's hiding behind her reserved demeanor. There was one other artwork of her, one that began in a life session but never hit the "keeper" criteria. I tried reworking it and it failed. So it's destroyed. But these turned out well, especially, to my mind, #5.
I've got another project going in the studio as well, a painting. I'll cover that one in another post.
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