Well, late last night, I just had to play with my new little watercolor field kit I put together. I love making up new kit ideas to carry my art stuff around in.
A picture of it all packed up, it only stands 6″ tall and 4″ wide.
For the painting, I actually painted it while laying on the bedroom floor! Sometimes I think I’m just a kid in grown up clothes, doing things I would have done when I was younger. In College I painted using an old bread board on the floor, all the time! I had no desk in my apartment and it was just easier.
Well, back to my tiny watercolor. It’s only 3 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ big! I used little brushes and the tiny little cup for water. I didn’t start with any drawing, I just started painting, looking for the shapes and laid them in lightly. As I started to add the face details, that’s when I checked using comparative measurements, where her mouth, nose, eyes all fell. Then I pulled the hood down a tad before putting it’s green color on.
Below, I added the background wash and more on the hood, washing some background blue onto the green of the hood. I lightened the eyes also, touching them up. And then darkened the shadows.
Finished little beauty!! Hope you like it!
Mary, this is a beautiful painting. I love the look in her eyes – I have seen that look before and it is beautiful dreamy and innocent and yet seductive.
It is great to see it in progress too.
Thank you –
Wendy.
Thanks Wendy!
I just love painting eyes, they are the most important part of the portrait to me. This one was hard because it’s so tiny! I needed my reading glasses at the end, haha…
I want to try some more miniature portraits. On my website, Princess Mary in oil was pretty small, but not as small as this.
thanks!
Mary
Beautiful painting. I can barely draw a stick figure and find anyone with such artistic talent pretty amazing. Thanks for sharing.
hi and thanks for the compliment! I love painting beautiful women, you should check out my Goddesses on my fine art website: http://www.marymcandrew.com I would like to work on some more small watercolors like this one.
Mostly I concentrate now on the Nature Sketching Blog, I mention it because I see you like nature…it’s at http://www.marymcandrew.blogspot.com (not to overload you! haha)
Mary
this is some of the most beautiful work I have seen. It is good to see what someone really needs and uses in terms of equipment to. Thankyou for your postings.
thanks Bruce, I’m glad showing my supplies helped. I want to organize the pages I have for just that purpose, under “Lessons + Presentations”, here’s the link: http://marymcandrew.com/lessons_presentations/my-art-supplies-equipment-books/ At this point I’m way, way behind on that page!!
Do you paint also? Don’t forget to take a look at my note cards and prints etc in my shop, I have this design “Green Hooded Woman” there too.
take care,
Mary