Here is an update on my Grand Canyon - we are battling it out. It is taking so much time because I keep redoing it to try to get what I see onto the paper. Still much to go, but I am getting happier and think I am finally developing a technique to do these stratas of different colors. It will and has required that I redo some of the other plateaus though. I realize even in shadows I need to put color to reflect the truly uniqueness of this wonder of the world. So far am getting much better at mixing colors as I have kept a limited palette, am employing and using a painting knife, and learning to be more confident with a larger brush and the softer stokes you get, and learning that what's sweet about acrylics is that you can glaze.
Bold woman's portrait
Bold Ok, for today's portrait I went out of the box and decided to try a different look and approach. This is on watercolor paper, I applied a layer of paper collate over it (you can see that some of it started lifting - so got to use more medium to glue it next time) Anyway then I tried to leave part of that under collage showing, even in the face. Went back in and applied several more light lawyers of transparent and opaque paint and then put in the hair using my dagger bus. Gosh that brush makes hair so much easier While this might not the best example what are your thoughts to taking portraits this more dynamic direction? Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.
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