Two blow-by-blows

1. Sketch with soft pencil. 2. Lay down a juicy free-for-all color wash.  3. Add facial features and other "valhues". 4 A done deal!

COMMENTS WELCOMED . . . the good, the bad, and the ugly.

COMMENTS WELCOMED . . . the good, the bad, and the ugly.

The Many Faces of Tommie

I'm going to handcuff myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the third time I have worked on this SAME watercolor. I add paint, I take off paint, I add paint, blah, blah, blah . . . but . . . I think I like this LAST iteration (yes LAST) iteration. The End.

More texture in Tommie's hair!

My latest watercolor portrait - need your advice

Which of these renditions do you like best and why.

The evolution of "Tommy"

This portrait of Tommy was started with a flat, four inch watercolor brush, painted in wet-on-wet on 140 lb. Arches cold press watercolor paper. After that, the painting was brought to completion wet-on-wet as well as wet-on-dry with a #20 round watercolor brush. Painting time about one hour.

Continued iteration of previous watercolor portrait post

Here is my final iteration of the painting in my previous post. Same painting, just more texture, lifting, and a few more hints of color added with conte. The sketch in charcoal pencil is a more accurate angle of the reference photo that I was working from. It was bugging me that I was so off on the angle, so I just had to do the sketch to get it right!