Watercolor portrait workshop - a different painting approach, step 1

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For a specific project, the painting process and techniques should be chosen and defined by the message and feelings that needed to be delivered with the painting. For this workshop, I like to bring you into a new challenge and its associated solutions.

This painting is a rather complex painting process, and it is different from the common and conventional ways. It is fun, though maybe scary and risky. The subject, its angle, and the unique lighting contribute to the challenges. To prepare for the learning of this lesson, I suggest that you go through the drawing study and the technique exercises which I will demonstrate as part of this workshop. I hope that you will have fun and enjoy art.

Drawing Study
This is a drawing study for a watercolor lesson. My patron friend uploaded a watercolor portrait painting after watching my other portrait lesson. There are a few things that I would like to communicate, so that I will make a two-part lesson to respond to her painting. This is the first part. In this video, I focus on drawing with shapes, starting from general and large shapes, then gradually approaching to smaller shapes and specific details. Values and edges of shapes were also demonstrated. Most of the painting's issues are not specifically watercolor issues, but drawing charcoal can simplify the solutions. My next part for this lesson - watercolor portrait with this same reference - will be coming soon.

1. For the first round of wash, I start the painting with some big washes for the background and the face and everywhere, and then use the lifting-off technique to create the light shapes for the hair. Then I used a palette knife to scratch for some impression of hair. There is only a window of 4 minutes for me to do this before the paper dries. Then I used a half inch flat brush to take out paint to return some light shapes on the face. After that, I apply a second layer with a darker color to develop more value contrast for the shadow side of the face, the neck, the hair, and the clothing.
In this stage, I lay a good foundation for the painting.

2. After the painting is dried, I start the adjustments, refining transitions and edges using lifting-off, and then gradually adding new colors. This is the first step of adding some details and furthering the balance of the painting.

3. In this step of the painting process, I move forward to adding smaller shapes and finishing the details for the focal-point area, and I add darker colors to finish the value composition.

4. I have been ignoring the eyeglasses until this step. I will add the suggestions for the eyeglasses. Techniques used in this task include the glazing, lifting-off, and dry-scratching. And finally, I make another round of final adjustment to the background so the whole painting can finally come together to become cohesive and balanced.

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