This painting is a Study I did in watercolor, ink and gesso of a woman. In this study I was trying to work out the colors and overall feel of the project. It is the third step in this project since I have already completed two sketches  of the same portrait. There are moments I feel pretty discouraged and am considering scrapping the project and going onto something more fun and less work and at other times I feel like this is going to work out nicely.

I see some things I am going to change on the final project. One is that I tried to use fountain pen ink to do some shading but I think it turned out inconsistent with the overall feel. Another is that I used a felt tipped ink brush on some of the lines and I think it looked amateurish so I will use a liner brush on the final. I will still keep the pen and ink for some of the drawing aspects of the picture such as the facial features and the sweater. I think I am mostly happy with the colors but I think I will work in more yellow as a first step to give the face some sort of highlights. I need to add some highlights to the nose in different places and correct the jaw-line.
I think I will make the face a little thinner.

I am working in watercolor since my studio is too small to accommodate much else but I think this would make a nice oil painting.

Mixed media portrait TEVY

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