watercolour sketch – JB (dad)
Friday’s watercolour…I’m happy with the skin colour and beard in this one, but struggled with the right eye (which still isn’t right, but good enough). At one point I moved […]
Friday’s watercolour…I’m happy with the skin colour and beard in this one, but struggled with the right eye (which still isn’t right, but good enough). At one point I moved […]
Finally worked up the courage to continue with this canvas….and it felt really good to squeeze out luscious oils again! I started with a thin burnt umber glaze over the […]
My lil’ sister, looking decidedly pixie-vampire in this portrait (she is pale, but not this pale!). I enjoyed this composition, filling the page instead of face-forward with space around the […]
Friday’s sketch, my mother. She started to look very witchy, but i managed to resolve that and when i told her she exclaimed “But I do look like a witch”! […]
My younger brother Duane…was hoping to do all these sketches face forward ID photo style, but this was interesting to do because of the weird angle. I think the eyes […]
ahhh…thought this one would be easy, my husband, i love him, know that face back to front right? Wrong!! So wrong! This one was a pain in the arse because […]
I’m going to try and build up my stamina by doing a portrait a day. I may be using the watercolours like oils or pastels and not really exploiting all […]
So i decided to move away from my son for a moment (easy subject because we’re always together, not easy because he is a whirlwind) and use photographs of my […]
Here’s another watercolour of my son. I went out today and bought some ‘adult’ watercolours and proper paper for the next batch of sketches since I’ve been enjoying this so […]