A work in progress of my step dad. I never draw with pencils so I am really uncomfortable with this.

Lots of things wrong lots of work to do. This was done from a tiny copy of a old photo......


More later

Tonight's Digital

This is Water Color on Arches 140# cold press paper
8x11

I spent 3 hours on this one. I enjoyed every moment
if you click on the image you will see lots of detail, for him to turn out this dark after scanning tells you that the original is really dark. But his grandmother said it was Lane! So I am happy.

I have some cleaning up to do and some details to add. I will post the finished portrait here.This is the final!

Sue a friend of mine . This is a scan and it is nothing like the original but I will post it anyway. Hopefully I can take a photograph of it and post something that really shows how it looks. But this will have to do for now....


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This is my characture of my friend. Now I can settle down and do a nice portrait!

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One of the projects on WaterColorWorkshop was a self portrait. I did this in a half hour on drawing paper. I like it's looseness but I didn't get the turn to my face right. So I am going to do it over and see if I can work on that partial side of a face . I tend to wan't everything balanced....lol

If I improve I will post.....The model was cheap.........

..A WIP of some of my mothers friends.
I should be through with it in a couple of days.
I have gotten him to thin and I dont think I can correct it , but we'll see.....
this is a water color with no

drawing first just a sketch with paint.

Haven't kept up with doing one each night. But I am doing more than I ever have before. Sigh....
The top left is the final. the top right was the first night.
The photo to the left is the original a 5 x 7. Really too small to get much detail. Total time 2 hours.

Trying to be loose and at the same time capture the actual people.

Arches 140cp 8 x 11 Holbein Water Colors