Portrait 9 - Audrey Hepburn

Portrait Nine - Week of February 14th
"Hepburn" (#5)

Detail: [link]

Experimentation! 54 hot-pink squares!

Ironically, my sister Audrey claimed the picture while I was working on it, so now its hers. Audrey owns Audrey.

The one on the left is while it was laying flat on a table, the right is when it was taped to the window while the sun was out.

12 x 18 in
1x1 to 2x2 gridding

Materials
Seven and a half hours
54 hot-pink sticky notes
Glue
Ruler
Big piece of artist paper for the backing
Mechanical pencil
Kneaded eraser
Insomnia
Reference picture: [link]
Black Sharpies
Black crayola marker (thin)
Uniball, Pilot Precise V5 fine point pen
Bic black ballpoint
Zebra black gel-pen
Gimp for editing


It wasn't until her cheek when I realized I had to tone her face, or else just make the background part of her. I think the toning came out pretty well.




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Portraits:

Amanda: [link]
Caitie: [link]
Self [link]
Serj: [link]
Gio: [link]
Caitie, Again: [link]
Kawabata: [link]
Bond Centerfold: [link]
Sam Green: [link]
Hepburn
John: [link]
Zoe: [link]
Johnston: [link]