portrait of a young lady #2

11 1/2" by 8" watercolours on arches 300 paper

portrait of a pretty face

11 1/2" by 8" watercolours on canson paper

another portrait of a beauty

11" by 8" watercolour on arche rough 300gms I have done this one last year and never got the chance to share it... I am eliminating the details in shadow and focusing only on the details I love

portrait

how sweet it is this photo simply begged to be painted .... I was really eager to paint her and she was so easy to paint ... the photo was posted by Conni for a monthly challenge in the watercolour studio As with all of my work I painted without a prior sketch

15 by 11 canson 140lb HP

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

vintage photo

This painting was done for the WDE frpm ref image posted by AlainJ , actually it was an old photoof his wife taken in the sixties and was in black and white

this is 14 by 11" arches 140lb CP watercolours done without pencil sketch

Working without a preliminary pencil sketch first , causes a lot of frustrations, especially as I am not doing th portrait in an abstract style...the hardest åart is to remember where the whites of the paper are preserved, and take great care with the placement of the features and then the shapes of the shadowing. All this is very carefully noted.

Sometimes I forget to add something or worse to fix a highlight that I have omitted due to my loose style, then I have to start again if the painting could not be saved

I enjoyed painting this sweet lady ... had to do without the highlights preserved on the on her right arm.But I still love it.