Recently I've been starting all my watercolors just painting over the whole sketch with a light color (this was the yellow of the the background) and building up all the colors from there, bit by bit. I lost track of how many layers of red it took to make the hair look like that, but basically every time I use red in my watercolors I wish I were working with gouache instead ;) Here's the final from the scanner:
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Process on Today's Daily
I had this thought that I should take some process pics of today's watercolor. Unfortunately I was trying to use my phone camera which doesn't have a flash, so they turned out extremely dark. This took about 3 hours from starting the sketch to finishing but I was working at a very leisurely (read: unfocused) pace. No hairdryer this time!
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