TIME TO VOTE . . . You said it was your favourite painting so I entered it into the Ken Bromley cover competition. Well I'm thrilled to say I made the shortlist..
You can vote here for your three favourite paintings.
http://www.artsupplies.co.uk/covercomp/
Please vote and share
This was painted from a photograph I took of my beautiful granddaughter Zahrah. She has gorgeous bundles of curls so I could play with all the twists and turns I saw in it. You don't always need to paint every strand but just enough to show the viewer what you are seeing.
Some photos I took along the way....
The drawing ready and masking put into the eye. I don't always do this but as I wanted to spend time experimenting on other things I didn't want to loose concentration there resulting on no highlight. You can of course go back it with Acrylic, Goauche and many other products, but then we couldn't call it watercolour, could we? ..... it is also never the same effect as leaving the white of the paper.
This is generally how I start most paintings and a style I have developed over the years, where by I paint with water. I don't was large areas as some artists do but instead draw with my brush as if it were a pencil, with clean water only.
Time to add some paint with light washes at first.
Have added some colour to the eyes. I generally have to get most of the eyes done first, If they don't work then the portrait has no soul.
A close up of the eyes at this stage, still more to do but gives me enough to know that it's worth carrying on with.
Here I called it done. I loved trying out different colours in the hair, using colour as tone in the depths of the curls.
Please take time to vote in the competition, there are many amazing artists there to choose from, each with their own style.
You can vote here for your three favourite paintings.
http://www.artsupplies.co.uk/covercomp/
Please vote and share
This was painted from a photograph I took of my beautiful granddaughter Zahrah. She has gorgeous bundles of curls so I could play with all the twists and turns I saw in it. You don't always need to paint every strand but just enough to show the viewer what you are seeing.
Some photos I took along the way....
The drawing ready and masking put into the eye. I don't always do this but as I wanted to spend time experimenting on other things I didn't want to loose concentration there resulting on no highlight. You can of course go back it with Acrylic, Goauche and many other products, but then we couldn't call it watercolour, could we? ..... it is also never the same effect as leaving the white of the paper.
This is generally how I start most paintings and a style I have developed over the years, where by I paint with water. I don't was large areas as some artists do but instead draw with my brush as if it were a pencil, with clean water only.
Time to add some paint with light washes at first.
Have added some colour to the eyes. I generally have to get most of the eyes done first, If they don't work then the portrait has no soul.
A close up of the eyes at this stage, still more to do but gives me enough to know that it's worth carrying on with.
Now time to add some more colour to the hair, but painting this section slowly and building it in different tone and colour.
Here I called it done. I loved trying out different colours in the hair, using colour as tone in the depths of the curls.
Please take time to vote in the competition, there are many amazing artists there to choose from, each with their own style.
