EvaE Again

This is EvaE, making her second appearance.  Her last appearance was a bit of a disaster.  Let’s see if Ivan do better today.

I used a lot of colours today, starting with sherbert lemon, chilli red, violet, deep indigo, iris blue, teal green, leaf green and baked Earth.  I started with indigo in the hair and the shadowy bits of the body. For the shadows underneath Eva, I put down indigo pencils first, then violet on top of those to distinguish them from the shadows on the body.  I used loads of different colours all over the body without leaving any white space – this was about having fun rather than producing a masterpiece.

For the wetting stage, I started by leaving the water brushes on one side and instead dabbed out all the main areas with a screwed up, wet piece of kitchen paper.  I then used water bushes to go around the main shapes, trying to leave hard edges while merging the painted colours into the cabbed colours.

I wasn’t happy with the final result, with the edges not looking distinct enough and the hair not dark enough.  So I added a second coat of colours.  In doing this I was aware that I was taking a huge risk that the painting would be ruined.  I’m pretty sure none of my second coats have worked up to now.  I brought in two new colours: ink black for the hair and fuchsia for the left facing sides of the major shapes.  I also put in more chilli red for the right facing sides and added the odd bit of iris blue or sherbert lemon where I thought the painting might benefit from it.  And then. I watered all these colours with a brush pen.

And what do you know?  The second coat did the trick today and I ended up with something vaguely presentable.  The colours all over the body are interesting and. The dabbing rather than brushing technique has added a three dimensional quality in places.  The hands aren’t right but I’m used to that and will keep trying to choose hands free source material.  Anyway, this isn’t bad and is going up for sale.