With today's faces, I'm beginning to loosen up and play with my mediums a tiny bit more. This is one of the things I'd hoped for with this project. I have much farther to go with loosening up the way I envision it and with pushing shapes, marks, and paint. But this is a start. I also have been wanting to figure out a way to combine my love for drawing with my love for painterly effects. Here I've had fun flicking masking fluid from a loaded brush onto the paper. This kind of thing is not new, but I've never done it with watercolor before and it sure is fun! We'll see how all of this plays out as 2007 runs its course.
This face reminds me a little of Jim Dine's self portraits. The bald head and the full frontal pose account for the similarity, I think.
This little girl is another of the family members of my dear friend from the Ukraine. I think it may have been her grandmother, but I hope she will see this and correct or confirm.
You dared to monkey with the fluid -- and the effect is great.
Posted by: wagonized | January 27, 2007 at 07:28 PM
Wonderful! I love them!
Posted by: Catalina | January 23, 2007 at 10:42 AM
Fwiew! That second one is just m a g n i f i c e n t!
Posted by: fabian | January 22, 2007 at 12:53 PM
Fwiew, that second one is just magnificent!
Posted by: fabian | January 22, 2007 at 12:52 PM
Thanks so much, everyone, even the unuusally taciturn Sparky! I'm looking forward to doing more with this method---and trying others, of course. I'm a restless artist, can you tell? Casey, I'm working from a variety of sources on this project---from life, from photos (both mine and others), from museum and gallery paintings, from art books. It's all good.
Posted by: Laura | January 22, 2007 at 10:26 AM
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Posted by: Sparky | January 22, 2007 at 08:34 AM