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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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…
Water mixable oils on a leaf
A little random exercise, first time using water mixable oil colors. I have never painted using oils so trying out the water mixable oils was quite interesting. And to make things more interesting the practice was made on a fresh leaf of any plant! I picked a big mostly even leaf from my hibiscus and…
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…
Soila Art 