I already did one self portrait for this year, thus as we had portraiture, self portraits as topic in studies, I decided to now portray myself in a mask. Since masks are used during our studies currently and I wear one in any public places I go. We had to use large A2 sheets to
This time I did few practices using just colored pencils. I used for the first time Strathmore Bristol smooth surface paper (270GSM). It was quite nice, very smooth and strong. I cut the sheet into four pieces, but I have just two of those drawn at this point đ (posted in the end). I wanted
Additional watercolor portrait practices I did earlier. Orange and blue were made in larger Canson mixmedia imagine 200GSM paper (A4) and the pink I did on smaller sheet (A5) of same paper. Just some loose trials, again only with watercolors, which only means I will be doing soon mixed media with colored pencils and watercolors
A few watercolor portrait studies for a change. I checked again inspiration via sktchy app for watercolor studies with one color under paintings. I did observation drawings with colored pencil straight to the watercolor paper, so no tracing, grids or otherwise heavy measuring involved, just a rough sketch based on an image. Colored pencil has
Watercolor time, and Leo time! I wanted to do a plain watercolor portrait and a self portrait this time, since is is my month of the year, August! Thus I chose to use warm colors, orange, instead of my usual nature and green theme. It has been, and still is a year of wonder, not
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