Painting Julia Hanna

Julia Hanna and I have been friends and on-line colleagues for many years now. She is my co-host on our Friday night livestream. I have been a guest on her channels on YouTube and she has appeared on mine. I have written guest posts on her websites, and she has contributed articles to mine.

Because of this, it should be no surprise that when I started painting again in earnest, Julia became one of my regular subjects.  You can see my art style develop in the different portraits I have painted of Julia.

The first time I painted Julia, it was from a photo of her as small child. At the time I was experimenting with the use of gloss medium, so that particular painting was reasonably well blended.

In the painting, Julia is holding a porcelain doll that she received as a present. She is smiling and looks very happy. I was pleased with how that painting came out.

However, in later paintings I was not able to use gloss medium, so other methods had to be devised. I resorted to less blending and more impressionistic use of color.

 

I also did a painting of Julia and her sisters at a more advanced age. For this painting I did not use gloss medium. The shadows and highlights are very strong in this group portrait.

This was during a period when I was doing many family portraits. Julia and her sisters was not the only group of siblings that I painted at that time. But this portrait turned out rather well.

I also did an ink drawing of Julia about two years ago.

My most recent painting of Julia is as an adult. I completed the painting in less than an hour during a livestream. It is an exampke of alla prima painting.

Painting the same subject in different styles and at different periods in life is a good way to learn to improve on past efforts.

About Aya Katz

Aya Katz is the administrator of Pubwages. When she is not busy administering, she sometimes also writes posts like a regular user.
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