Marion

[Celeste McCall]

This is a watercolor portrait...my 5th one...I'm new to watercolors so it was challenging but fun.

I will show it step by step.

This was done on a 8"x10" Clayboard textured.

There are some things that I would do differently looking at it now...especially the chin, but it turned out ok for a beginner watercolor portrait.

First, I drew it on with the water dissolving pencil (Prismacolor) because I don't like the lines of the pencils to show through the watercolors. And you can move the line with this one by pushing the line with a wet brush (not too wet , though).

The next step was to wet the face and start with the undercolor for the shadows. I mixed a greenish color.

Then, in the next two, I finished the face and blocked in the hat.

With the Clayboard textured it is easy to lift the paint if a mistake is made.