This month, I took a bit of a break from my oil paints and worked on mostly paper for my breadth pieces. I hadn’t explored colored pencils much before and wished to take risks by attempting a semi realistic portrait of a witch. I layered my colored pencils as I worked on the detail on her face and realized this was much more difficult than I had planned! I am not normally fond of color pencils as they appear bland to me but over time I discovered how to dilute them into one another and solved problems by blending many colors to create one uniform tone. I used color theory to make my witch pop. I am still working on the hair which is very detailed. I have made a few other pencil sketches as well, and I plan to test my color theory with pencils on those soon. This month, I also delved into working on line variation, something that I’ve dabbled in once before. I created a portrait of a girl and used a permanent marker to create thick and thin lines. The end result is a really nice illusion like effect. I plan to watercolor in the large piece, although the marker might bleed with the water. To test it out, I sketched smaller studies of facial features in marker and watercolor it in, and it was fine. I also set aside some time to plan my upcoming concentration portfolio, which I have decided to focus on Religious Imagery. This is a really interesting topic for me as I love Catholic, Renaissance, Medieval, and Turkish art. I wanted to focus on heavenly portraits, mosaic tile collages, and perhaps calligraphy. Most of the portraits will be oil on canvas/ wood. I’m quite excited!
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