Lucinda's Guardian Final

Here is the final version of Lucinda's Guardian! The image was made softer overall and more detail was added in the tree bark and girls. : )

I love the way the backgroung turned out and the grass colors dance through the painting! The yellow flowers and the perfect detail touches for the angel's eye and sprinkling throughout this image!

Let me know what you think!!

Thanks!

Lucinda's Guardian - continued!

Next I worked to develop the overall layout of the painting, changing it from a horizontal picture to a verical layout design with 3 key elements: the tree, the girls, and the tree's shadow. Using these elements I played with color combinations and layout, starting to develop the overall painting plan!

I started to develop the image shapes with blocks of color, using browns in the tree bark, darker greens for the background trees and shadow, and green hues with yellow speckles for the grass.

Details started to come out in the tree as I created an angel that symbolized Lucinda's guardian angel, watching over her and her cousin on this sunny day in a field of yellow flowers! The girls holding flowers and overall look started to come into play, although this image turned out more hard lined than the final painting - details of the clothing starting to be involved in the overall look. As I stated more at the shadow in the picture, a sillouette came out of it, and I thought how cool it would be if that were the shadow of the guardian angel reaching out and touching Lucinda, just upside down perspective! (Bottom of angel at tree, head at bottom of the page with arm reaching out.)

Playing with the yellow flowers in the field was fun too! : )

Lucinda's Guardian

This is a custom painting I did for a special friend, Lucinda! She gave me a little photo of her and her cousin and wanted an image done to share with her. The photo is soft and sweet with several elements to take into consideration.

I always have to do something that makes a painting mine, adds some type of symbolism for the client and hopefully connects with others! As I looked at this photograph and played with it in my creative mindspace, I was waiting for it to show me some magic! And then the image of an angel appeared in the bark of the tree, as if she were watching over these two little girls. POOF! The idea for Lucinda's Guardian was born!