Hey everyone, here's tonight's update!

This is what I worked from today.

John Singer Sargent - "Sitwell Family"

I chose this piece to work from today because it's slightly more complex than yesterday's, and the subject matter's still relatively the same. I can definitely see here that the same light to dark technique was used from his "Daughters" painting in this piece (as far as the background is concerned). Though there's a really interesting relationship, or a lack there of, with the arrangement of the figures. The matriarch is on the right, with her children and a small dog at her feet. They're all very bright, and focus pulling, where as the older daughter and her father (I would assume), are quite separate. Either side of the image could be it's own distinct painting. That's the neat thing you get from looking at work like this, whether the family wanted him to or not, there's certainly a story being told in this image. Anyway, let's see how I did.

Not too bad. I think this one shows a little bit of an improvement from yesterday's work. Everything seems roughly closer to where it should be, the contrast's a little better, and the overall size of the figures within the composition is markedly more accurate. This was not however, how the image originally looked. It needed a little tweaking before it got to this point. You can check out the not-so-great version below.

Pretty interesting what a few brush strokes can do, right? I'm much happier with the tweaked version.

Here's the animated version of the good image transitioning into the reference painting.

That's all for tonight, check back tomorrow for something new!