Titanic Love was painted in August 2019 in acrylic on to a base drawing using pencil and water-based coloured pens. The art images are 1500 by 1200 pixels and displayed reduced (50%). I took the original photograph of the 'lovers' (image 1600 by 1200 and shown at 37.5%). The backing of this scene is drawn from the film and involves the compromise of turning the lovers in respect of the background. The painting was unusual in that it did not involve a crisis stage, where part of the process is to rescue it from mistakes, but then a huge omission was identified and later corrected in September 2019.
Following this achieved painting is an associated painting, completed September 2019, called Draw Me, based on the opening of the drawing scene in the Titanic film. This is on a medium sized canvas, in acrylic paint on a pencil and coloured pens drawing. Shown is a 1600 by 1200 pixels image and displayed at 37.5%.
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Below was the main painting as delivered at first. I had thought that one of the metal lines went behind the models, until looking at an electronic image later. You can paint a picture and miss the obvious! So I retrieved the painting and made the correction, plus a few small 'repairs' and details. The colour match in the correct version shown above is less good for the sea (if too strong) but better for all other features (especially the sky). The issue here is the silver pigment in the green sea, and it is more evident in the corrected version.
The drawing already involved the change of costume so that it is a higher class of dress! Without using a ruler or grid, the challenge is to have the railings as continuous and in perspective. See below and continue for the source image.
The source photograph below is without a flash and this accounts for its strong fuzziness in low light. Obviously it was good enough as a source for a painting, which it was drawn from looking at a computer screen but was otherwise painted blind in a different room.
