I’m interested in doing a few watercolor portraits. Today I am studying this photograph that I took of my daughter wearing a shawl I knit.
I chose this because of the variety of textures and contrasting values. Her pose is also very interesting to me.
So far, I have cropped the image and penciled the shapes onto watercolor paper. But before jumping into painting, I thought I would test out a few color selections in my sketchbook.
A good start. The background is not dark enough, but I like the shawl colors. I can add more layers of paint to the background. That hair is too orange! It will be useful to attempt another study of the head before I move on.
8-05-22
Today I corrected values, added detail to the background and refined the face.
Daily Fiber 