The latest practice piece is based on El Greco's 'A Lady in a Fur Wrap' dated 1577-80. From the classical portraits I've seen so far, it seems unusual for a woman to have modeled for an artist wearing a fur wrap. His is a painting that looks more contemporary than from the 16th century.
This was done with my black pen (Muji), shading with mechanical pencil, black watercolor for hair and background, plus a selection of brown, sepia, gray and white pens for the fur.
For fun, I've drawn one of my own photos (yes, I was dressed in a clown outfit) and added a wild and crazy background to accompany it for today's practice effort. As part of sketching the piece, it was split into four sections with two opposing diagonal lines. In terms of color choices, I've worked with color gradations for some shape sections. Can you believe, there are five major shapes in this effort? There really are -- circles, squares, trapezoids, triangles and spirals. I think the substrate is Biengfang Watercolor Paper (140 lb.). The materials used were Ohuhu markers, Micron 01 pigment ink pen, some red Stickles glitter glue for the nose, and a white Posca pen (for white dots on the face and to highlight eyes) and a yellow one (for yellow dots in the center of the flowers on the hat). There was no intention in working on this piece other than to have fun...and based on how it looks, I'd say well done!. One thing I learned is that blending with the Ohuhus i
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