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Cher
Before I head back to watercolours tomorrow, I thought I really should give the marker pens a quick go. So I googled for black and white celebrity portraits and found a good one of Cher and Gregg Allman. Cher is a chiaroscuro artist’s dream, so a no brainier as a choice of subject. In this particular photo, her jet black hair was a great background to her pale looking facial profile.
So, yeah, most of this was done in blacks and neutral tones. The great thing about having a black background is that you can do some very subtle corrections to the profile by going over bits of it in black. That’s why the nose came out so well. I also like the eye.
To contrast with the black and white, and to make a Cher look even more like a member of the Adams Family, I put in a magenta background and I think it does everything I wanted it to.
This one looks good; it’s up for sale. To see the price, click here.
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