Today's effort is based on a 1915 painting by Sir John Lavery of 'Lady Gwendoline Churchill'. It doesn't look like the painting at all. In this drawing, I'm not liking the hand shape and it is too high spatially in any case. A better decision would have been to leave it out. Aside from that, I am liking the use of line to suggest fabric direction/layers...an idea for the future.
Tools used were mechanical pencil (HB lead) for the face and hat, Muji pen for line work, and watercolor.
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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