After two days out on the road with the watercolours, today's weather forecast was more…
Cammie
The weather wasn’t looking good today so I stayed indoors. After a run of straight edged figure drawing s with the coloured pencils, I’m back to painting curves with the inktense pencils. Today’s model is Cammie, making her debut.
I went a bit overboard with the colours today, starting with willow, leaf green and mustard and intending to throw in a little bit of blue or red at the end but ended up using baked earth, apple green, teal green, sea blue, bright blue, deep indigo, fuchsia and poppy red and not holding back on any of them. Coloured pencils have got me into bad habits, applying too many layers of too many colours. I even fel5 as I& ai was reaching the maximum capacity of the paper for colour in some places.
I’ve ended up with something where the colours don’t really work together. And where Cammie’s right arm looks deformed until you realise it’s because that’s her (too visibly prominent) backbone and not the edge of her arm. And I had a problem with the indigo drying too quickly, leaving me with some ugly looking thick blue edge lines in places.
Let’s put this one down as a flop.
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