Two Book Reflections

I had the opportunity to take a portrait class with Bob Witte this week.  Faces are not too difficult if you want to represent a generic human. However, individual faces grow distinct by the smallest of details.  If you miss the distance between the eyes, you miss the individual.

In this class we used photo reference and transferred the crucial dimensions by first piercing the photo then transferring those points to watercolor paper. Then with care to the original lightly  draw in the key features

I’m working on a portrait of our granddaughter.  I can post the progress because facial recognition will probably not recognize her.

Bob likes to work with multiple washes in a remarkable method that is both precise and yet free.  This painting is about half way done. Stay tuned for the final versions of these portraits.