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…

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…

Portrait paintings – 30 Faces 30 Days: days 16 to 20

New five from the Sktchy portrait challenge (#30Faces30Days) using watercolors and gouache. This was again more watercolor heavy with a little mixed media as well. Some very nice bright and colorful references and/or outputs. And the artists! Especially David Lobenberg’s California Vibe watercolor portraits was a session that I was expecting a lot. Might have…

Portrait paintings – 30 Faces 30 Days: days 11 to 15

Gee, time is flying by and I am already behind with the sessions 😀 but yet another new five from the Sktchy portrait challenge (#30Faces30Days) using watercolors and gouache. This time there was four watercolor paintings and one gouache (acrylic gouache) session. Quite different artists again and different approaches to watercolor and gouache in their…