Sunday, October 24, 2010

Child Portrait, The painting stages of a watercolor painting by Linda Young


The First Wash was applied to the shirt in the areas I want the wrinkles and creases to be.  I added a very light impression of a logo also.  His blue jeans are beginning to take form now.  Some shading was done to the left side of his face and ear; a touch more color was placed on his lips to bring out the highlight.  Not much more will be done on the face now until I decide on the shirt color and background.  I did work on his hands and much needs to be improved upon on the left hand; however, it's gotten so late and I'm at a point where I need to stop.  Tomorrow is another day.

This is a digital photo taken at midnight with incandescent lighting on the art; the white balance is not correctly set; but I wanted to post this to show the progress.  If I have time in the morning, I'll scan it to show the color more correctly.  (Hey, it's morning now...just look at my posting time!) 


4 comments:

Debra Kreiger said...

Linda, this is coming along just great! I like the way you have him positioned.

Tatiana said...

Looks very good, Linda!
Looking forward to see the progress!

Pat Koscienski said...

Linda, you do so well with portraits. Can't wait to see this finished.

Unknown said...

Thank you all very much for your comments; I didn't have time to work on this today and only now did I have a chance to get online. It was a gorgeous day! Hope to get to it tomorrow.