Tag Archives: abstract portrait
Mike-Related Watercolor: Disorientation – Superimposed Portraits (2016)
Mike-Related Watercolor: Mike Crying (2015)
Mike-Related Watercolor: Portrait of Young Mike; Frame 3B (2016)
Final frame of series.
Mike-Related Watercolor: Mike Portrait Series #3 (2017)
Mike-Related Watercolor: Mike Portrait Series #2 (2017)
Artist-Inspired Watercolors: #1 – After Kandinsky (2016)
Indecision Resolved
It may not appear so, but I worked on this piece for several days. My first brush scribbles danced around the idea of faces. I contrasted the linear strokes with gray and blue washes. I created three or four faces consciously, but there could be more of which I am not aware. The canvas looks […]
Metropolis Girl
I began today’s experiment with an arc of yellow. Then I completed the rest of the head skeleton with that same color. I chose an appropriate blue to merge with the yellow to create an acceptable green. I also applied some blue directly, for eyebrow and lip strokes. I put this aside for a while; […]
Long Necked Woman
The palette I used for this portrait is the same as yesterday’s.. I used complementary colors to represent the half of the face in light (red) and the half in shadow (green). I know I need more ideas that using highly contrasting colors to represent light and shadow, to make progress in portraiture.
Brotherly Love 