Practice - Updated May 15th

Today's effort is a sketch/painting based on a photo of Maude Feley taken around the turn of the 20th century (changing from 1800s to 1900s). She was a beauty and it's amazing how many photographs of her that have survived.

This is more of a simplified sketch. Her eyes are a bit off from the photograph, but it is minor. That said, I like having done the blue gradation for the background too.

The tools used were a mechanical pencil (HB core) for the sketch, Japanese watercolors for the background, and embellishments were done with a gold Sakura Pen-Touch marker, black Muji pen, and white Uni-Ball Signo pen.

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