This is an exercise out of Gary Greene's book and is a different colored pencil technique than I've done before. This is using water color pencils, supposed to be on mat board but didn't want to do that large of a picture, so this is on my go-to 9"x12" watercolor board - secret here is to do the blending but don't use much water and that is difficult because even the board wants to buckle a bit.
Still working on my hair techniques and have a long way to go to make it hair but not look like a stroke. Also see now that I want to put some indigo into the background behind the head to make it stand out a bit more - different color schemes.
Have a couple more pieces running around in my head so hard to focus and get something on paper. Wanted to try this, one of those thought I'd get it done quickly - NOT - that's the deal with these exercises, when you read it seems straight forward, but when you actually paint it, well that is quite another matter.
Hope you all have a wonderful painting week and thanks for stopping by.
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