Suzanne and Owen

 

 

This is a photo of my friend Suzanne, walking with her son Owen.

As a moving in present I decided to paint my interpretation for her  new home….

Whilst thinking about how I wanted to do this, I decided that I would love Owen to be the main feature in the painting, without him being the largest object or in the centre. So to do that I thought about painting everything in black, white and grey then put Owen in colour….

 

With it starting to take shape, to try and give a little depth I sketched my idea direct onto the canvas and laid down the basic colours, whilst still deciding about how to do the background.

 

A few more hours later, once the original colour layers had dried I could add light and shade and decided to keep the background in dark colours to ensure that Owen was the only one in colour.