portraits

As you know I am trying to improve my work in portraits ... I believe it will improve work in other subjects as well... these were done for a portrait paint along challenge on Painting friends here

11 by 7 arches 80lb Block in watercolours

11 by 7 bockingford 140lb CP in watercolours

11 1/2 by 7 1/2 daler rowney 140lb CP in watercolours

More Fun With Watercolours

Hi All Thank yo to all who joined my blog and to anyone who makes the time to drop in and leave a comment These were donefor the WDE on wetcanvas from images posted by Bunny back on 30th april As always I benefit from these events by practicing and stretching my skills ... I try to develop my style and find a style that is mine ... I focus on shapes and the shadows only sometimes leaving the highlights as pure white paper ... without doing a preliminary sketch first The first one was of Bunny´s dad from an old sepia photo, I used a sepia watercolour and painted wet on dry literally painting the shadows in leaving the white of the paper white and putting in the dark values at the end.

11 by 7" bockingford 140lb CP watercolours this second one was done in the same style but I masked the whites on the butterfly to have more movemet in the washes

7 by11" bockingford 140l CP watercolours

7 by 11" bockingford 140lb CP watercolours

fun with water

Hello Everyone These were done for WDE on Wetcanvas from images posted by a friend of mine... JoanT ...back in April... I was hard at doing the illustrations then and needed a breather ... that is what made me experiment to have fun ... I did the first one by applying very wet paint on the shadow area and drop in shades of other colourswhile it was still wet... then after it dried I added the darkest tones

7 by 10 " bockingford 140lb watercolours

This one I did by working wet on dry

10 by 6" bockingford 140lb watercolours

The last óne I soaked the whole paper with water, dropped in a few medium dark tones and when it started t dry, I started working negative shapes... that was rea fun, and the result was so soft

7 by10" bockingford 140lb watercolours