Yesterday's effort was to draw Da Vinci's 'La Scapigliati' (1508). It looked better without the color. (The color was added to see if the face would 'pop' a bit more.) The eyes and nose are fine. In the first version, there was something about the mouth that wasn't right. So, I've re-worked it today. It actually looks a bit like a smirk now - not intentionally.
The nice thing was after finishing the first version last night, I listened to an organ concert from Stanford's Memorial Church. It was a Bach program performed by Dr. Morgan. It was so apropos for the very classical mood that is permeating my practice imagery lately!
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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