Day 28 Challenge
Teacher - Kyle Legaspi
Day 29 Challenge
Teacher = Rik Reimert
Day 30 - Final Day Challenge
Teacher = Wira Faryma
This was frustrating, challenging, fun, and I learned so much from the various artists who took they time to provide 1 hour+ lesson plans and share they techniques.
Teacher = Lorraine Simonds
Day 26 Challenge
Teacher = Peta Harvey
Day 27 Challenge
Teacher = Alyssa Wolber
Day 23 Challenge
Teacher = David Tenorio
Day 24 Challenge
Teacher = Charlotte Hamilton
Teacher = Wira Faryma
Day 21 Challenge
Teacher = Dritan Duro
(You should see his version - it is fabulous!). Mine, well, she looks sunburned but I kinda like the unusual look to it.
Day 22 Challenge
Teacher = Kirsten Britt
I think I am getting the hang of her style - she does her paintings on small blue mixed media sheets and then adds white pastel pencil at the end to bring back the whites but I just painted mine on watercolor paper.
Day 19 Challenge
Teacher = Rik Reimert
He painted the girl with her sweater a cobalt blue and although I love blue I wanted to match that bright red lipstick with her sweater so made that change. I seem to want to change from just what the teacher does, trying to make it more my own as I do more of these.
Normally, I’d share 3 portraits, but I’m behind now after getting a flu shot and having headaches and nausea (from the headaches) for 2 days. Better now but it’s supposed to be warmer this weekend so may go hiking for a while. I’ll catch up later.
Teacher = Peta Harvey
This one was supposed to be done on tea-stained paper using sepia watercolor but I just got out my walnut ink and painted (using just a rigger brush) on white watercolor paper.
Day 17 Challenge
Teacher = Alyssa Wolber
I like all of her lessons so far and think she’d be a great teacher, lots of information as she paints, good photos of models, and fun.
Teacher = Kyle Legaspi
Teacher = David Tenorio
Day 14 Challenge
Teacher = Charlotte Hamilton
Day 15 Challenge
Teacher = Lorraine Simonds
Day 10 Challenge
Teacher = Dritan Duro
Day 11 Challenge
Teacher = Wira Faryma
Day 12 Challenge
Teacher = Kirsten Britt
Day 7 Challenge
Teacher = Alyssa Wolber (the photo is of her daughter - about 10 year’s ago) and she wanted us to do a monochrome in just 2 blues (you know I love my blues so that was fine by me).
Day 8 Challenge
Teacher = Kyle Legaspi
I made this one my own by keeping his eyes very golden and giving him a golden shirt (just Quinacridone Burnt Orange with water dropped in as is was drying to create the texture).
Teacher = Rik Reimert
I’m finding that I want to make these paintings more mine by changing things from what the instructor does. I thought he looked like he was looking up towards something - guidance, assistance, perhaps sending a prayer up. So I left that light block there. The teacher had his black all around and made his face much darker but I like my version with the light shining on him.
Day 4 of the Challenge
Teacher = Charlotte Hamilton
Day 5 of the Challenge
Teacher = Lorraine Simonds
Day 6 of the Challenge
Teacher = Peta Harvey (she wanted us to put a pattern in the background so used my crow stamp).
Day 1 of the Challenge
Teacher = Dritan Duro
Day 2 of the Challenge
Teacher = Kirsten Britt
Day 3 of the Challenge
Teacher = David Tenorio
Another from Domestika and Sarah Stokes. Learning how to paint eyes and a little fur.
Worked on it a bit more and it looks better but wish I had used a white gel pen or thin liner pen to make the whiskers because they are too thick and obvious…oh, well, still learning.
Since I signed up for the Sktchy Challenge of 30faces30days, I am getting to the finish of the Domestika course as I have time. Painting a portrait a day takes time and planning - and material - and watching videos, but is really helping me learn more about watercolor portraits, I think.
This would have looked cleaner if I’d planned to put the clownfish in before painting her hair. As it was, I lifted out a large section of her hair after it was painted, painted in the clownfish, then painting in strands of hair around it. I think she looks happy to be a pretty girl with a fish in her hair = quite unusual! ha ha
I have 2 more Domestika.com courses to do (artist/teacher Sarah Stokes online course on birds and then another on animals). I am enjoying these courses = little mini lessons that kickstart me into painting when I’m not feeling the inspiration inside and there are some good teachers and courses in Domestika - plus they are very reasonably priced. I just got 3 courses for less than $25!! You get to keep the lessons after you’re done, too, so you can return to them again if you need refreshing with the technique or style. Now, I have been painting for years (not 20 years but quite a few years) so I don’t really need these lessons - but they are still fun and you get a chance to see how other artists work (especially if you are still not comfortable going out to an in-person class or workshop).
Just the first layers on this one. Love her hair and hope I can keep it that free and loose.
I’m thinking I might take the Skechy challenge of painting a portrait every day in October but that seems like a lot of pressure to get it all done…maybe I’ll just do one every other day? Or continue on my own with Domestika lessons helping me. (I did sign up for 3 more Domestika courses and the one on birds is really fun and full of information although her pronunciation of gouache bothers me every time she says it! ha ha
It is wash with a g in front of it = gwash
She pronounces it goo-wash. But maybe that’s her regional accent? Sarah Stokes is her name and she’s a good, informative teacher. I know these courses are not for someone who’s been painting in watercolor for years but it does kickstart me when I’m in a slump - and I always learn some little thing that’s new.
Now I have to slow down and take it easy, looking more than painting, as I finish her skin and hair and decide on the background colors.
Yeah, I turned hm into a merman. The little seahorse was added with gouache.
I’m not that unhappy with it but still wish I’d left it at the first version before continuing to work on it. Oh, well. Maybe there is a lesson there that I should quit before I think it’s finished?
I think I’ll get out some dry media not and do a few touch-ups and move on to the next thing.
I like Arthur Braud’s teaching style a lot and will look to see if he has any other courses through Domestika.com.
Another portrait course through Domestika.com - this time the artist teaching is Arthur Braud and I like his style and his teaching ability. This is the first few layers of this pretty boy and I added some of my own touches (made the tattoos star-shaped instead of flowers and added an earring). I wish I had stopped at this stage but I needed to go on to “finish” it. I could have left it at this stage and called him a merman!
Before the background is added, she looks very red, but I think it’s done except for a dark background which might change the look.
This girl started as a regular portrait and then I decided I wanted her eyes to be very green and match with her hair (which, I admit, looks more like a scarf than hair because I made it too one-dimensional). The course then goes to PhotoShop to add “motifs” to the painting after scanning it in. I don’t have that program so…just painted the little seahorse in gouache over the top.
Now, I need to catch up on my blogger buddies’ posts - I am behind due to this course, watching the US Open Tennis tournament in NYC (on t.v.), and some family health issues. Will catch up soon, I promise.
A second online course through Domestika. com is by Ale Casanova, also a portrait painting course. Not as much information as the first one, but still learning things. Ale paints by lightly painting an underlayer over the portrait and building up the color and shape. Again, too heavy-handed so the color was too intense right away. Not sure I will ever learn to have a very light touch with watercolor or drawing.
