Nothing I put in anyone's pocket will EVER compare with the boobies Hennie put in Willie's pocket, so I guess a few prints of my current artwork will have to suffice. I have made 4 x 6 prints of these three recent pieces for Ash's pocket.
They are:
1)Magnolias. This is created in my practice watercolor Moleskine, which is a 5 x 8 Moleskine. I colored the page orange with an orange permanent marker (Sharpie)[which by the way, I received as a gift from Andrea, thank you Andrea], and then sketched the vase and magnolias with a Crayola water-soluble marker (the one I've been using for water-brushed sketches), and then painted it with gouache. It was an experiment. As I expected, the marker blended with the gouache to darken the edges of the petals, branches and vase. My first attempt at this technique.
2)a from-life sketch of BB in the cover-leaf of the same sketchbook, done with ball-point and gouache. I think it's the best sketch I've ever made of BB in that it looks more like him (which is my goal, to learn to do likenesses) than any other I've ever done. At some point, I may try to make this into an art piece without the centerfold, but I do not have time right now. I did it when we were eating out at the Coney, and he was holding a beer, but I didn't finish it before it was time to go.
3)Tulips at the Village Market 100328--a digital smudge painting sketch which is a practice for what I hope to do over maybe in water-soluble oils, big.
Inquiring minds want to know, so here is the totally unadulterated version of my sketch of BB (K).
The paint beaded up a little on the coated surface, making it look like he had the pox. This does not happen on watercolor paper.
10 comments:
I agree with you on the life-sketch of K. It does look a LOT like him! Question, tho: you don't mention that you used the computer on this post... but his skin & hair, did you add computer-generated color? Or did you use another medium than the ballpoint & gouache you mentioned? His skin tone does not look like paint, so I'm curious...
I painted the color on with gouache, but I smoothed it a little on the computer with artrage because it looked blotchy because of the coated paper. I only smoothed the skin, I left everythign else as it was.
Isn't that funny! I was disturbed by the smoothness of the skin, thinking it was out of place with the rest of the sketch... while alternately, you were disturbed by the blotchiness of the original! Do you have the blotchy original posted anywhere? On your blog? I'm curious... still...
I LOVE this image. It really is an excellent likeness. It's exciting, as I know you have been striving for more accurate portraiture! Incredible progress, you should be proud :-)
Mary - your sweetness and generosity with sharing and gifting items always amazes me. Thanks. I love to see all the different things/mediums you are able to work with. All the sketches of K over the last year and a half have been fun.
Thanks so much, Mike, you're so sweet! :-D
Hennie--I posted the untouched version at the bottom of this post.
Wow!
YAY! :-D
I LOVE the original, the blotchy paint doesn't bother me a bit... truly! It really is a great sketch of K, too. Amazing likeness!
Thanks. I kind of like it too, but the beading paint sort of bothers me. It's like they WAXED the paper.
I was very happy with the likeness. :-D YAY!
Now if I could do that with Sissy and Garryd etc, I'd be all set.
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