Well if you have been reading my thoughts this week you know I am cleaning my studio and trying to find things I haven't finished (like I have to look hard) and slowly get them completed. I am pretty capivated with pointalism and enjoy doing it, however it takes time and is a slower process. This is a study I had started and just had a little left to complete, so did so and revisited trying to learn the tonality to get likeness. Debating whether or not to add anything more to the clothing or just leave it as I really don't want to detract from the face. Black and white is hard though, so I have another piece where I did colored ink to see if it was still so stark that I will post later this week which is a totally different effect, but not sure it is softer.
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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Have a nice week, full of artistic development.
I am waiting to see the news of your works of art! Big Hugs,Rita.