Watercolor Advent Calendar 2022

Hello hello! Before last December I bought an advent calendar by Khanna’s Honey Hues to open each day and swatch the color and do a portrait study. So, 24 days in the watercolor advent calendar (obviously), thus 24 different color pans, which then resulted in 24 different monochrome portraits made using each color per day….

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Peace and love – a hope?

It is insane what is going on in the world right now. The current unjustified war, an invasion by Russia to Ukraine based on false claims of a mad dictator. Ukraine has every right to defend itself and arm itself for defense. I wish the best for Ukraine and we should stay civil, and not…

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Acrylic gouache on wooden panels – Flower paintings

Two acrylic gouache paintings with a bit of mixed media. (Quite a lot actually 😀 ) The main driver for these paintings was the coming exhibition, a dark room with UV lights in a paradise theme. So fluorescent acrylic painting was used in these paintings as well. The flower paintings cannot be seen in the…

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Portrait paintings – 30 Faces 30 Days: days 26 to 30

The last five! Portrait paintings from the Sktchy portrait challenge (#30Faces30Days) using watercolors and gouache. This time there was more gouache than watercolor lessons, mainly since I did not proceed with the watercolor and gesso experiment but opted to use just gouache instead. This time the watercolor studies were a bit more struggle, don’t know…

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Portrait paintings – 30 Faces 30 Days: days 21 to 25

Almost the last five from the Sktchy portrait challenge (#30Faces30Days) using watercolors and gouache. Still more watercolor painting, but some very nice exercises again 🙂 Especially the first lesson by Alison Pinto seemed so tough that I only drew the face on first day, and then started the watercolor challenge the next day 😀 There…

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