Wow, what an incredible lesson! Someone asked me to paint her adorable twin babies. I was terrified, because twins are tough - you can kinda compare them side by side to find exactly where I went wrong. So, of course, off to Skillshare I went in hunt for an appropriate lesson. And found this! Yeah! The instructor rocks and her handouts (a textbook, almost!) are helpful.

The violet underpainting is absolutely genius.

I am still climbing the learning curve, because the babies came out looking muddy (arrggghhh, I know we are SUPPOSED to make mud, but I don't want to make it so the babies look as if they're splattered with mud!)

As recommended, I started with PV23 because I ACTUALLY DO HAVE A PV23 TUBE! That's the only paint I already had out of the list of recommended paints. What another genius step to focus on the paint codes, not the names. I usually go off on flights of fancy when buying based on paint names (but I need not to tell you how many times I was sorely disappointed at how the beautiful color name doesn't match up with the actual paint color - it gets pretty embarrassing. I'm looking at you, 50% off coupons to crafts stores).

Twin Babies - image 1 - student project

Looking at that value study, I realized I was too heavy-handed in some areas (upper right forehead on right baby) and too tame in other areas (shaded area under right baby's chin). And what's up with squinty eyes? I definitely have problems painting eyes in shadow.

Then, I realized I don't have that beautiful red (PR700) so I improvised, mixing together some ochre and vermillion.

Twin Babies - image 2 - student project

Then I went on to add some other colors. Prussian blue, some kind of yellow.... Twin Babies - image 3 - student project

After peeling off the masking tape, I added payne's gray to make the shadows even darker. And went around, adding and removing a tiny bit of details.

And there you have it. A pair of adorable, but a bit squinty and very muddy, babies.

Twin Babies - image 4 - student project

I'll try doing this painting again, fixing these squinty eyes and use a bit of lighter hand with the underpainting around the cheek area.

If there's something you've observed that would help my painting come out much better, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SHARE!!!

Julie Bourne

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