"This is a Boticelli-like looking person"... is what I thought as I saw this model for the first time. The floral background was an idea I had when I was in floral painting mood lately. Thank you to Judith for making this painting fun happen.
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Next full day portrait workshop is on Saturday 01.06.24, 10 - 16°°.
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Each year we gather at some lovely place for family reunion and each year we are more and more people. Could have sketched for days if I would have made more portrait sketches... real fun.
I made a few more sketches, but I am in a lazy summer mood and will probably post them later. Happy holidays.
Oh my, so much happened in the meantime and I am extremely behind in posting my art. I have sketched and painted a lot, was travelling, was preparing exhibiton stuff, was organizing a Sketchtour and, and, and...my life never gets boring it seems;)
I am back to portrait painting and sketched this women and a hint of background.
Here you can see the photo reference and the sketch together:'
My sketchfriend Fernanda sent this photo and titled it: Frida for a day
What a lovely one I thought, asked her if I am allowed to sketch it.
Then sketched her in less than an hour. No fiddling, no measuring, just fast sketching. It is not an exact copy, but a certain likeness is definitely there.
You can see the humour he had...
Needed to sketch another prompt as well as nobleartofcycling said, I should do it in "kermitgreen" and here is my sketch:
Jeder kennt Jim Henson, den Erfinder der Muppet-Show. Zuerst machte ich eine meiner üblichen Morgenskizzen (hier Vorlage von @nobleartofcycling), brauchte aber diesmal 20 Minuten dafür. Weil es so viel Spass gemacht hat und weil mir @nobleartofcycling vorgeschlagen hat das ganze in Kermitgrün zu malen, konnte ich kaum widerstehen.
If you like to learn how to draw and paint a watercolour portrait, you are welcome to sign up for my full day Saturday WORKSHOP in February (click link for info and registration).
Another watercolour portrait sketch before Christmas. Can't get enough!
If you like to learn how to draw and paint a watercolour portrait, you are welcome to sign up for my full day Saturday WORKSHOP in February (click link for info and registration).
Seldomly sketch a motif twice, but I was not totally satisfied with the colour values in my first try (see the post from a few days ago) so I did it again. In order you can see the difference I sketched the headband in green, while last time I did it in red. I am more happy with this version as also the mouth looks more like it is in the original photo.
This is how I began:
And this is what it looks like after several layers of skin colours:
Great exercise.
If you like to learn how to draw and paint a watercolour portrait, you are welcome to sign up for my full day Saturday WORKSHOP in February (click link for info and registration).
This lady again is a great subject to be drawn and painted in watercolours. The skin mixtures are well planned in advance. In my class I will teach how to draw a face easily and how to mix skin tones from light to dark and which colours are used as shade colours.
If you like to learn how to draw and paint a watercolour portrait, you are welcome to sign up for my full day Saturday WORKSHOP in February (click link for info and registration).
Frank, the biker was interesting to draw. I especially like the nose...
If you like to learn how to draw a portrait, sign up for my full day Saturday WORKSHOP in February (click link for info and registration).
This time I worked with loads of water for getting the curly look of the hair of this guy. Great fun, splashing around...
Here is the photo reference I got from Mr. Earth:
If you like to learn how to draw a portrait, sign up for my full day Saturday WORKSHOP in February (click link for info and registration).
What a great fun doing this watercolour portrait sketch in A3.
The reference photo of Jen is A4 - Thank you to my friend Mr. Earth who lets me use his great photo.
If you like to learn how to draw a portrait, sign up for my full day Saturday WORKSHOP in February (click link for info and registration).
What a granulation (!) in this first fast portrait, that I did in 15 min. with a flat 80mm brush and some remaining dark colour from the mixing space in my colour palette. It helps staying loose and using a lot of water. The portrait below was done in the same way with a brown watercolour. Both are direct watercolours without preliminary pencil drawing.
Sketching Portraits is like modelling the face out of the colour...really entertaining. I love the process of first analyzing the person, deciding about the colours to use, get aware of light and shadow parts and finally paint...
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Thank you to Mr. Earth for letting me have the wonderful photo reference.
