Her Majesty's Cupcakes (acrylic on canvas, 11 x 14 x 1 inch) has to be one of the most pleasantly detailed paintings I've ever done.
I'm definitely getting this made into a print for all you print buyers out there--keep a look out in my Etsy shop. I might keep the original painting for my own art collection, I love her so much.
It's the pink. Girly, cute, pink with all these pretty little painted cupcakes in a sweet sugary kingdom of roses, jewels, frosting and sprinkles. And it's all in this painting. I love it. LOVE it.
So let's go through the work in progress:
I transferred my smaller, original sketch onto the canvas and added the roses at the top. I felt like all that open space really needed something more. What better way to express you love than with flowers and cupcakes, right? Right. Moving on:
I did a color rough in Photoshop. Being that this was a crazy-detailed piece, I didn't want to screw it up with a crap color job, so I did this and was off to the races! Or so I thought...
Coloring my giant color book made of canvas started to go really well until I hit a snafu:
YUCK. The gold in her bodice was giving me fits. I saw it in my mind as gold glittery goodness, but somehow that was not working. The cupcakes in the background too, were bothering me. Too busy or something...So it was back to Photoshop.
I managed to do a color rough over the shot of my work in progress pic. Seemed to be quite useful--I added a hand holding a cupcake, re-did all the background cupcakes and re-did her, um...shoulder (?) cupcakes as well. In my effort, I've created a useful tip for myself and for you, dear reader: take LOTS of photos to document your painting progress, particularly if you're doing a detailed painting like this one. If you find that you need to re-do a color comp on one of the photos you've taken, go for it!
Now onto the next Sweetie...time for more research! Yummm...
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