Skin tones
Bungadora
Angel. It may be a product of how different colors appear at different
latitudes, but my poor angel looks decidedly jaundiced. Colors used for the
face include DMC 3855, 744, 3822, 738, and 3853. Skin tones of angels cannot be
expected to be the same as that for people, I suppose, but these colors are
much too yellow. Nor do they all blend in well together. In particular, 3853,
which colors the skin between the face and hair, stands out too much.
I am thinking the best solution is to use the same colors, but to blend them in
with a base color for all tones, probably a light tan. I think this would tone
down the yellowness, and also help the colors blend in together. I am going to
a needlecraft show this morning and will be looking around for a silk, which
would also add some luminosity to the skin. As an alternative, I think I could
use 738 as the blending color.
Do you think this might work? Do you know of another DMC color which might
work? Also, any recommendations for working with silk would be welcome as I
have not used it before.
Dora
Jim & Tracy Dunne
Sorry can't help with skin tones, but may I ask which kit/chart you have of
this painting?
I ask because, I recently bought two charts of famous paintings, which I
downloaded from an on-line store. Some of the colours in these seem wrong to
me, skin tones are yellow and details in the faces is very poor. Also parts
of the chart seem 'pixelated' and not edited very well at all.
Probably best to let me know direct to my e-mail rather than on line, incase
we upset someone!
Thanks
Tracy
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F.James Cripwell
> Hi Dora,
>(snip)
> downloaded from an on-line store. Some of the colours in these seem wrong to
> me, skin tones are yellow and details in the faces is very poor. Also parts
> of the chart seem 'pixelated' and not edited very well at all.
>
> Probably best to let me know direct to my e-mail rather than on line, incase
> we upset someone!
>
> Thanks
>
> Tracy
I have been trying to produce counted cross stitch patterns from
pictures for about 20 years now. I still haven't produced a pattern that
is worthwhile stitching, but I have learned a lot in the process.
Producing a *GOOD* pattern from a picture or painting is not that much
different from producing a pattern from scratch. Maybe a difference in
time, but you still need a lot of artistic talent to produce a good
pattern from a painting. Most of us know when a designer has a new
pattern, whether we want to buy it or not. It is a subjective judgement,
based largely, I suspect, on the artistic talents of the designer in
question. Maybe some time in the future we will have the same sort of
knowledge about people who produce patterns from pictures and paintings.
But for the moment it is caveat emptor - buyer beware.
Some of them are done by people with artistic talent, and are well
worthwhile buying. Some, I suspect, are produced, en masse, by someone
with no artictic talent, and you run into the problems you have found. HTH.
--
Jim Cripwell.
Thoughts from a confused philosopher.
If a husband speaks in a forest, and his wife does not hear him;
Is he still wrong? (And I know the answer is YES!!!)
Caryn
>
>I recently started a chart taken from Edward Burne-Jones' painting, Musical
>Angel. It may be a product of how different colors appear at different
>latitudes, but my poor angel looks decidedly jaundiced. Colors used for the
>face include DMC 3855, 744, 3822, 738, and 3853. Skin tones of angels cannot
>be
>expected to be the same as that for people, I suppose, but these colors are
>much too yellow. Nor do they all blend in well together. In particular, 3853,
>which colors the skin between the face and hair, stands out too much.
If this helps: skin tones are closest to DMC 754, 758, 950, 3778...to give you
a range for shading.
Good Luck!
Caryn
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Bungadora
sample squares. The color of the face has a golden tone in the original
picture, and I don't want to lose that quality. I haven't quite found what I
am looking for yet though, so I will try the colors you suggest. I suspect I
will soon have all flesh colors known to DMC and Krenik.
The lady at the LNS suggested I complete more stitching around the face because
those colors will interact with the colors of the face. However, for now I'm on
to the next item in my rotation. (Baby sweater and hat for my great-nephew
Alex.)
Dora
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