JenB, Taking A Breather

Not feeling inspired enough to dig out the watercolours or oil pastels today, so I’ve been doing some figure drawing with the inktense pencils. Ā This is the fifth time I’ve drawn JenB but I’m still struggling to capture her essence on the paper.

For colours, I tried a combination of bark, leaf green, fuchsia, iris blue and mustard. Ā I started with bark in the darkest places, then moved on to the red, blue and green. Ā I tried to generally have blue on surfaces pointing to the left and red on surfaces pointing to the right. Ā And green went wherever I fancied some extra colour. Ā The mustard was added at the end in the edges of highlighted areas (with the paper left white in the middle).
I added some extra colour in a second coat, mainly on Jen’s right arm, which had been looking a little like an elongated flag of green, white and red, and on her face to try to bring out some features. Ā I’m not impressed with the face though. Ā I’ve cropped out the nose but that’s still an ugly looking mouth – I think I’ll crop out as much as possible of that mouth if I ever frame this one.
I’m going to put this one in the shop window. Ā I think the colours worked out well. To see the price, click here.

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