Ok, just so you know I've not been a total slug this weekend here is an update on my parrot. Now that I have the color in I have to go back in and add in additional ink, but pretty much have the background complete enough that I can start to work on the parrot's feathers. I am learning a lot from doing this painting and am planning the next one in my head, only next time I am going to do it in brown ink so it's not quite so dramatic, but then again it might be too subtle - we'll see. But alas I get ahead of myself and got to focus on getting this one finished.
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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