COMING TO THE END OF THE SKTCHY CHALLENGE - 30 FACES IN 30 DAYS!

 

 Day 25 Challenge

Teacher = Lorraine Simonds

Day 26 Challenge

Teacher = Peta Harvey

Day 27 Challenge

Teacher = Alyssa Wolber

MORE SKTCHY CHALLENGE PAINTINGS - ALMOST AT THE END

 

Day 23 Challenge

Teacher = David Tenorio

Day 24 Challenge

Teacher = Charlotte Hamilton

ALMOST BACK ON TRACK WITH DAILY CHALLENGE

 Day 20 Challenge

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.  

GETTING A BIT BEHIND

 

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.

MORE PORTRAIT CHALLENGES

 

Day 16 Challenge

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.

Day 18 Challenge

Teacher = Kyle Legaspi

SKTCHY CHALLENGE CONTINUES

 

Day 13 Challenge

Teacher = David Tenorio

Day 14 Challenge

Teacher = Charlotte Hamilton

Day 15 Challenge

Teacher = Lorraine Simonds 

MORE SKTCHY PORTRAITS

 

Day 10 Challenge

Teacher = Dritan Duro

Day 11 Challenge

Teacher = Wira Faryma

Day 12 Challenge

Teacher = Kirsten Britt

SKTCHY CHALLENGE - 30FACES30DAYS - STILL WORKING

 

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). 

Day 9 Challenge

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.  

30 FACES 30 DAYS CHALLENGE ON SKTCHY

 

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).  

SIGNED UP FOR THE SKTCHY CHALLENGE - 30FACES30DAYS!!

 

Day 1 of the Challenge

Teacher = Dritan Duro

Day 2 of the Challenge

Teacher = Kirsten Britt

Day 3 of the Challenge

Teacher = David Tenorio

HERE’S LOOKIN’ AT YOU, CAT

 Here’s lookin’ at you, cat.

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.

THE FOX IS BACK?

 A little fox looking away from you.  Another playful painting done while watching the Domestika course on painting animals - instructor is Sarah Stokes.  

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.  

I TAUT I TAW A PUTTY TAT

 From the Domestika.com course with Sarah Stokes on painting animals in watercolor.  Pretty littl Siamese kitty - although we had one in the neighborhood growing up and it was a mean thing!  It used to sit on top of the car and if you wanted to go somewhere in that car = too bad because it was not moving and would hiss and scratch out at you.  Not a favorite breed!

A COUPLE OF BIRDS

 The Sarah Stokes course on Domestika.com shared her way of painting birds.  These are my chosen birdies and my composition from photos I found online on a free site (no copyright issues but not my own photos).  Sarah likes her splatters so I did some splatters, too (might have gotten carried away).  The colors I used are in the left side.  I liked the ides of putting down the color palette and then sticking to it.

THE GIRL WITH A FISH IN HER HAIR

 

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).