Watercolor is both hard and easy. It's a fairly easy medium to use yet takes a lot of mastery to make it worth your while. I admire the watercolor artists I see on Facebook, especially those who make landscape/urban art, maybe because I don't know how to do those. Anyway, as I want to learn doing portraits first, I'll stick with this genre for today. My art journal offering is of Sylvester Stallone (an artist/expressionist himself) as Rocky. I slaved over the skin-tone for an hour from 5 in the morning to 6 am...or was it earlier? I didn't want to treat it loose and transparent afraid I wasn't going to capture his likeness at all. As usual, there's room for improvement but I'm learning. I must say Holbein WC is good even when used thickly and opaque.
Not to self: I noticed I choose my reference pictures carefully. Otherwise, how do I keep my inspiration while I attain likeness? I have to keep this in mind though for my future projects.
P.S. RIP John Avildsen, Director of both Rocky and The Karate Kid.
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| I think I penciled a good likeness of Rocky. |
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| But look how dramatic a simple sketch turns when painted in! |
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