Hope everyone's week went as planned. Mine was quite busy. And again, I find myself in the mood to start another watercolor, this time a portrait. I sketched it up last night onto Arches cold press watercolor paper The paper is white, I edited it to darken up the lines so y'all can see it............
It isn't anyone in particular, just a woman I drew knowing that my painting style differs a lot from my graphite drawings so I needed her to be loose, somewhat impressionistic. A few years back, I'm embarrassed to admit, I bought a set of Hydrus, concentrated watercolors. These are really intense watercolors and to use them, you dilute them by using only a few drops of the color added to water, the less water, the more intense. Technically, they are SO vivid, they should be used sparingly or you can end up with major color overkill. They were expensive and I still have not used them. sooo, I thought I would break into those and give them a try with this portrait. I will still need to work this sketch some more before adding the color to it as it needs a bit more detail and definition.
As for Lucy........I am still working on that massive head of hair she has. It's going to take time. I did add watercolor to her irises to show off those beautiful blue eyes that she had. I am also going to add watercolor to her lips as well. I LOVE graphite with just a hint of color!
Working on these will keep me busy for awhile but I do have other projects in the works. One of which is a colored pencil piece plus, three other sketches to get to that will be drawings when finished and a large canvas painting in acrylic. Yeah, I have my work cut out for me and I will post progress as I go along.
I do want to mention that I am currently available for commissions as well. If interested, I can be reached at ellenbelshin@ymail.com and I will be happy to answer any questions you may have as well as go over pricing. And I do offer payment plans too. I am, finally, working on a new website that should be up soon so there will be a place to go to view my work other than here on my blog or on my Facebook page. I am Puttinondaglitz on Twitter so I can be followed there as well.
I hope everyone has a great weekend and I'll be posting again soon!
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