Well getting ready to have a big storm, hear it thundering outside so want to get this posted and off the computer. Might be the final posting for this week. Have overpainted the dark areas with Tuscan Red and that started to get the neutral grays, enhanced it again with Indigo Blue and Black and think the shadow area is coming together pretty well. Did the layer of additional solvent and will have to add back in more color but think it is slowly getting there. Hopefully when I burnish it with white I'll get the wet look. Again this is a very different technique and lots of layers but do like the rich colors that still show back to the white of the paper. Still have a lot of work to go on this but it is at least pretty much out of the ugly stage and hopeing I can get itin the home stretch.
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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By the way; thunder and storm are one of my favorite wheaters...
You are very well on your way with your kiwi
Maybe you're too harsh for your self?
Take care and I'll write you an e-mail tonight!