April 23, 2014

Painting Portraits



It would seem that I'm doing a lot of portraits or rather, the few paintings that I have done are portraits.  I don't have much time for painting since I took over as Workshop Leader for the Santa Clara Valley Watercolor society (ironic I know!)  

This little girl was having fun blowing bubbles with her mom on Sunday afternoon when I saw her and took the reference photo.  I had a lot of fun painting her but it was a challenge as well because this was done on Hot Press paper, a paper that I didn't have any previous experience with.  I just love the expression on her face and how her hair turned out.

I look forward to trying more portraits on hot press.  

Here is another recent work...



This one still needs some work, the background came out so splotchy, I haven't decided what to do to fix it yet.


1 comment:

onlymehere said...

Once again, beautiful works of art for my eyes to feast on. Sounds like you're keeping busy with other things. Hopefully you can steal a little time to keep making these beautiful works of art. Cindy