Here’s how it should look at this stage. Once we start putting in the colour and texture of the water, we can blend this in until it’s less dominant. There’s plenty of room for error here as long as you don’t start off with strong dominant and staining colours in your first reflections. You can [...]

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testing materials coffee, watercolour, pen , acrylic, and pencil

study of pin-up Betty Page from one of her 3D books .

From WHO HAS THESE FEET? by Laura Hulbert. Illustrated by Erik Brooks
Henry Holt (Aug. 2011)

Pretty self-explanatory…I like the blue-green color.

Occasionally turn your painting upside down and step back. See if anything looks out of place and in need of modification.

This is an picture I did the other day from a photo by Tommy Ton from the Milan Menswear Fashion Week. The original image was really captivating, I immediately felt I had to try and draw it. I’m venturing into using watercolours, plus my usual tonal pencils etc. I did a bit of digital cleaning [...]

Created Jan 25 2011
Strathmore watercolor paper and Lyra watercolor crayons with liquitex acrylic inks.
see more info here, see blog post here for the supply list and tutorial
alifeunrehearsed2.blogspot.com/2011/01/from-start-to-fini…

Created Jan 25 2011
Watercolors and tempera paints.
Spray inks
Empathy matters.