Digital Art

Portrait of Yola

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©2020, Emma Pittson, “Portrait of Yola”. Photoshop.

The time has come to set aside landscapes and dive back into portraiture!

And wouldn’t you know it?  I got so used to landscapes that I found this portrait to be a bit more of a challenge than I had anticipated.  This image represents a few days of work, at least!  Of course, I walked into it thinking “I’ll just keep it fresh, and loose, and, you know… painterly” and, well, THAT went out the window pretty quickly.  I think it’s a leftover reaction to my art school days when we never had enough time to finish anything, and even if we did, we were always discouraged from painting anything that looked too realistic (“skillful”, some might say).  With no teachers or peers around me, I can noodle to my heart’s content – and so I do!

Anyways, this is Yola, a model with a Russian modelling agency called Lumpen.  Their entire roster is comprised of Real People, which I think is very cool.

Clouds at Ste-Irenee beach

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©2019, Emma Pittson, “Clouds at Ste-Irenee Beach”. Photoshop.

I often think to myself that it would be so much easier if I could a) get excited about drawing buildings (haven’t really tried, but you never know – I might find I love it!), and b) not mind that I can’t see any horizon line.   I’m a city-dweller, but I don’t find artistic inspiration in cities – because, honestly, how could cities ever compare with the St-Lawrence river and great big, puffy clouds?

Lac Monroe – Evening

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©2019, Emma Pittson, “Evening on Lac Monroe”. Photoshop.

This was one of the last sketches that I managed to complete during my lunch break at work.  After this one, they all got some re-tooling on my computer at home.  And not a moment too soon!  The monitors at my office are not very well-calibrated (we’re animators, not graphic designers, after all!), so it was a bit of a shock to bring this piece home and realize I can see a lot more of the underpainting than I realized – or that the horizon line is a little crooked!

Ah, but that water… now THAT I count as a success!

AND if you’re camping at Mont Tremblant, and you’d like to score this view for yourself, just book Huttopia (Ready-to-Camp) site #74!  If you don’t mind a short-but-steep hill, you can scramble down a little private path to the water’s edge, and then it’s just you and the lake!  I must have taken a hundred pictures from that spot in al kinds of weather conditions, so expect to see more Mont Tremblant images in future!

Lady Hamilton Study

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Lady Hamilton portrait study, Photoshop, 2016

Study of a George Romney portrait of Lady Emma Hamilton, because I love “That Hamilton Woman”, and we Emmas need to stick together.

Also, if I could just find that One.  PERFECT.  Brush. these digital studies would go a lot faster…