sábado, 8 de noviembre de 2014

The story behind Molly's watercolor and its process in photos

Everything started when the assignment of making a work of art for a final exhibition was given. I decided that I was going to make a portrait in watercolor, my favorite technique. And what I wanted was a photograph of a fully lighted face, almost vanishing in white. I searched for pictures of many actresses and actors that would have pale skin, kinda alabaster, profiles that could have that kind of pictures. I couldn't find many. I started searching thoughout photos in my computer that I save beacause I would like to make a portrait of them in some free moment. There is where I found in one of the many folders the photo of Molly, a picture that I had saved relly thinking of doing a portrait of it someday, and the moment had arrived. Between other assignments and an essay I had to deliver to college around the same dates, I had 6 remaining days to make it. I badly wanted the portrait of molly finished for the exhibition, so in an anconcious state of mind to not get too much stressed I started painting, if I didn't finish it I was going to take some other portrait to the exhibition, but I wanted Molly's. Luckily after some crisis due to little mishaps of water looking like aureoles due to the amount of material, layers and water in the painting that I was able to solve, the painting was ready on time :). On november 7 I took it to Uni, but before leaving home I uploaded it on Deviant art and Twitter tagging Molly with some hope of she seeing it but not so high ones. What I would have never expected was the mindblowing surprice and happines I recived on my way back home, when I saw that beautiful Molly and Stana had seen the painting and shared it with the world and handreds of people was seeing it too, RTing and commentig beautiful kind words. The feeling I had seeing my notifications go like crazy like it never did before, due to the two kind ladies that shared it with the world and to the world that reacted to my painting in an entrancing way. I'm utterly blown away, it felt so unreal and beautiful. you all made my day, I've never had a that bigger reaction, even today I was already receiving comments, RTs and favorites, actually right now, two minutes ago I received another comment. Today I was checking and my tweet received 28 favorites, and 7 RTs, Molly's tweet receved 444 favorites and 61 RTs and Stana's 1.417 favorites! and 505 RTs and still reciving some more and also not counting all the cute comments. It's crazy, I can't believe it, you have made me so happy.
Today I copied all the comments and printed them to save it in my memory box.         
 Love you all :) Million thanks.
 

And here the process of the successful watercolor:














Thanks for reading =D