Today's post reflects a multi-day effort creating my version of a portion of the painting titled 'Bianca' by William Holman Hunt dated 1868-69.
Day 1 - the sketch outline was completed
Day 2 - face shading and some shoulder ruffle shading was completed
Today - sketch was tweeked and piece was painted (except for face, neck, and top of chest)
Tools used included mechanical pencil (HB core) for the sketching and acrylic paints.
Before painting anything, I decided to use acrylics thinking it would look better than watercolor. Now after completing it--I know that was the right choice. I'm very satisfied with the effort, have learned some things, and am feeling more brave in trying out new ways of working with paint to do garment shading. That's a big step!
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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