Pictures being compared
from Watercolor Portraits Group.

This first one is mine. I discovered from
trying to do this one that I really like close ups with eyes showing details. My printer was printing flaming reds all over her face and in the shadows. So I had to paint from my computer screen. I am not happy with this but I will be doing some touch ups. This one was really a challenge for me




This one is Marlyins. I love the sky . The little girl and the man are very nice
I want to reach out and pat the mans shiny bald head. Jo's hair is lovely you can see the sun shining in it.Her face is beautiful.The thing I found so cute but hard to capture was the expression on her face.The sun reflecting on her face is nice. I think I like this one the best!
Nice job.

This next one is Ann's.
You got the shading on the man and you made her smile, which is neat. I really wish she had smiled or grinned...such a serious little thing. Her hair is a little lighter(more blonde) but I like it.
Nice job.

This one is Judy's I don't know what you did to the hair but it is just lovely!You and Ann gave an idea of knuckles on that hand that I had a hard time doing.Her face is nice and the glasses are ok. Nice work on that ruffled sholder strap. Her mouth is nice. Nice job.


This is the original. I found my self wishing I were there on the beach!
This one is Jolene's. I wish
I had not done the fella, but I couldn't figure out how to not do it! Your hair is nice and fluffy. I almost thought it looked matted with sand and saltwater in the picure. You know this little girl so I figure you see her more than I do. LOL Nice glasses . Nice job.
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This is a final of a portrait I've done. If you page down you will see the characature I did of this one.
Blogger wouldn't let me in to edit a post so I had to put it in as a new post. click for larger. Enjoy!





Here is a link to the first steps of their portrait
and a characture of them
http://digitalandtraditionalart.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html

Laurie Pace's work has been on my mind this week. I love what she does with thick paint. So I mustered my courage and tried a pallet knife painting of my daughter. I am surprised and pleased with my first attempt. Thanks Laurie for the inspiration and motivation from all your beautiful paintings, and scriptures, and paintings and paintings! Her Blog address is:
http://lauriepace.blogspot.com/

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