The Beauty Spot

Barbara Glatzeder

The Beauty Spot

Watercolour on 180g pitted drawing paper.

Featured in THE SISTERHOOD
Featured in Back in Black

Just for interest’s sake, this is the 5th portrait I’ve done of a fellow Bubbler.

Reference image used without permission (cause it’s a surprize!)

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The Beauty Spot by Barbara Glatzeder
The Beauty Spot by Barbara Glatzeder
  • Shelly Hiebert

    Shelly Hiebert

    Very beautiful work Barbara :)

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Thanks Shelly, I hope Mimi likes it, too!

  • Catherine Howell

    Catherine Howell

    very nice work:)

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Thanks so much, Catherine :-)) xx

  • mimi yoon

    mimi yoon

    oh
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    saw it on the activity feed and thought she looked familiar… way too familiar… hehe
    oh my gosh, barbara… thank you thank you THANK YOU!!!!!
    you are so awesome…. i still am not bold enough do delete most of the information on an image like you to create a stencil…. i’m gonna learn so much from this… you rock dear friend… xxx
    p.s. love that mole you kept… :P

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Hahaha, glad you like it – it was just a matter of time (it’s not like I didn’t try pencil you, but the stencil version worked out muuuch better) ... try it, it’s sometimes tedious, layers and stuff, but it’s fun. If I finally got my mind around vector I’d probably have crisper images, but the flow of the paintbrush on the paper is quite relaxing …

  • mimi yoon

    mimi yoon

    like it… i love it… and would love to see the pencil version too… :P
    someone told me to do live trace in illustrator yesterday, but i want to be able to do it like you… freehand… and yes most definitely, the flow of the paintbrush… what true artist can deny…. thank you so much again, barbara… :D xxx

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Oh, I ripped up the pencil version, it was going to be ‘wo-man and machine’, you and the Nikon, hehe … perhaps I’ll have another go … live trace? Never heard of it – my preps are mostly digital though, but there’s always something I want to (and do!!) adapt or adjust etc., and the sweep of the brush leads me :-))

  • KEITH R. WILLIAMS

    KEITH R. WILL...

    excellent

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Thanks so much, Keith :-)

  • mimi yoon

    mimi yoon

    so beautifully said, friend… adapt or adjust etc., and the sweep of the brush leads me live trace is a function in illustrator that creates stencil look for you which i have never tried… i sometimes use cutout in photoshop… BUT i love your way much better… and yes, please give it another go… when you feel like~ :D

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    I’ve never worked with functions/filters, I don’t have Photoshop or Illustrator – I mainly up the contrast and that shows me the direction, but more often than not one setting alone does not ‘work’ for the entire image, so it’s back to manual labour and human eyes … but I’ve been thinking, real stencils, they must be hard, to have all the pieces linked together so the thing doesn’t come apart when you lift it ..!! lol … I’ll see about than pencil drawing, once I’ve got my courage back ;-)

  • Chet King

    Chet King

    Beautiful work of a beautiful subject.

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Thank you and yes, very beautiful subject :-)))

  • Mark Tull

    Mark Tull

    Great work.
    And I found the tutorials interesting too ;o)

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    LOL, you’ll be a painter before you know it :-)) Thanks!

  • Dragonhide

    Dragonhide

    I thought it looked familiar too.. That is definitely a testimonial on how well this was done!

    It would be so fun to make a spray paint stencil template out of this and replace ugly graffiti with a beautiful one. ;-)

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Thanks so much!! Shall we ask Mimi if she minds? hahahaha

  • AnitaInverarity

    AnitaInverarity

    Unmistakably Mimi- Wow, she’s a great subject, gorgeous girl, gorgeous work xx

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Thanks Anita – indeed, I’ve been wanting to paint her for a while … fascinating features :-))

  • Cassey

    Cassey

    Gorgeous tribute to a stunningly beautiful woman (in all ways)

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Thank you :-))) ... and very talented artist and writer, too!

  • doreen01

    doreen01

    Beautiful Mimi…beautiful your works! :)

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Yes :-))) Thanks so much Dorina, I am back to my ‘old’ style, now xxx

  • joyousmoon

    joyousmoon

    Fantastic! Congratulations on your Feature!

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Thanks so much, Pamela :-))

  • Appel

    Appel

    Beautiful! You are so talented!

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Hey Ann, thanks!!

  • terezadelpilar

    terezadelpilar

    FABULOUS

  • Daniel Angeles

    Daniel Angeles

    This I an amazing image, I saw it and thought “This looks exactly like Mimi Yoon” and alas, it is. This is such a great image, You capture the best of people and you do it so well and with such unique style.

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Thanks so much, very pleasing comment :-)))

  • 3XEternity

    3XEternity

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Thanks so much!! Fantastic :-)))

  • Petra Pinn

    Petra Pinn

    WOW,this is fantastic, I recognized her immediately, great work

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Thanks so much, Petra :-)

  • wu-wei

    wu-wei

    The fact I recognised Mimi (and I haven’t been on RB long) shows how good a job you’ve done on this – retaining a likeness in stark black & white is difficult. I went through a spell of doing alot of these some years back; it’s fun following the lines you create as you never quite know how it’s going to turn out.

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Exactly :)) you never know where it’s going to take you, and likenesses, well … thanks ever so much! :))

  • Rosetta Jallow

    Rosetta Jallow

    Simply beautiful!

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    Thanks so much, Rosetta :-)

  • CACGuerra

    CACGuerra

    un contraste muy preciso y cálido… nice!!

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied

    thank you! gracias, me alegro mucho :-)

  • hugh023

    hugh023 26 days ago

    Lovely!! . . .

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied 12 days ago

    Thanks so much, Hugh :-)

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied 12 days ago

    :-))) I keep discovering your comments all over the place – I hope you don’t mind me replying bit by bit … xx

  • Obadiah-Qi

    Obadiah-Qi 15 days ago

    If it’s Mimi it is a masterpiece. Gorgeous! Oh and so is this piece! LoL

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied 12 days ago

    :-)) it is. Thank you. hahahahaha

  • Del Millar

    Del Millar 15 days ago

    A very nice watercolour of Mimi

  • Barbara Glatzeder replied 12 days ago

    Thanks so much, Del :-)) wow, you look much younger x

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