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Facing sideways
I am meeting on Sundays with some other artists, we get a model who does long poses. The pose I was presented with yesterday was of a lovely young lady laying down, and i wanted to do her face, of course. I started out with a quick sketch on my arches watercolor paper and COULD NOT get a handle on her face. After at least 30 minutes of erasing, I asked the gal next to me for a piece of paper, and drew the face. It was really hard. I finally got a face with proper proportions, but it wasn't right. I turned the paper over and started again, carefully, breathing, and trying to sketch this gal's face. At the long break, I stood and sketched her while she talked to me about her unusual career, with her head upright. I was able to patch it up a little bit but still wasn't happy. Finally, I had 1 hour left to go and decided to just paint and see what came up. I liked my painting better than I liked the two sketches that I spent most of my time on; albeit, learning the face.
I took a picture of her which I plan to work from this week in the luxury of my home. I was really surprised that the camera picked up more warm tones from her face and skin than I could see. My eyes kept seeing blue, blue, on her forehead, her shoulder, her eyelids, but the camera did not. I found it unsettling that my eyes were not truer.
There was a problem with the pose that added to its difficulty. Her head kept rolling with gravity. I didn't realize this until the session was almost done; it was, Hey, I didn't see that ear before!
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