Yesterday's and today's efforts are based on Domenico Ghirlandaio's 'Portrait of a Lady' dated 1490.
Yesterday, the pencil drawing was completed though colorless, it didn't look right. So today, I painted it in with watercolor. The face, neck and hand have intentionally been left in pencil. Only the pupils have been colored in with black Muji pen and white Sharpie was used to highlight them, and a ring on the hand was painted with watercolor.
I'm pleased with the watercolor except for one area that is a rework. This medium is finicky, but it can yield beautiful softness and gentle transitions. It was captivating to see the changes as different colors were added. I love the simulated mountains and the red dress as well as the flower and leaves.
Note: Additional face shading and hair work has been done and the newest version is the bottom photo.
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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