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…
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Watercolor painting – Dance
Another study assignment with a theme. This time dance, or movement was the topic. This is actually a followup task from the previous live model session and the croquis sketches. There we also had the same theme. The assignment is based on this ballet performance: Igor Stravinsky Rite of Spring, choreography by Vaslav Nijinski, Mariinsky…
Watercolor painting – Summer Lily
New waterlily painting from this summer. This time I went to take some photos at summer cottage on a row boat. It was a bit later in the afternoon and the sun was shining beautifully in the water, making the bit murky water shine in oranges from my angle when I was dangling in the…
Watercolor portrait studies – sktchy app
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…
Watercolor portrait studies – sktchy app
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…
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