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Painting class on Thursday night continues to be a challenge.  I have very little experience doing figures with watercolor.  Here are the images I took every twenty minutes or so.  At one point I got disgusted with what I had and scrubbed the whole thing under running water.  It’s amazing how much survived and it was an improvement.

This first one is just a couple of washes over the pencil sketch.  The one on the right, I kind of like as the more detailed washes are pretty distinct and clean.  Probably everything starts to deteriorate from here.  The live paintings however, look quite different from the photographs.  The photographs give a sense of completion and finish.

The one on the left still isn’t so bad but the one on the right is just getting too heavy handed, which might be alright if the proportions and expression warranted it.  But  mainly all that weight was just exaggerating everything I thought was wrong.  I think this is about the point where I headed down to the washroom.

Using my fine brush I started drawing in the general lines of the form.  Lets just call the arabesques so as to make it seem like a good thing.  It sort of begins to seem like a tinted drawing in a way.  I like the tones that come through on the figure and I like the quality of the lines over the washes.  The drawing is a bit off…Way off.  There you have it folks.  My Thursday night watercolor, with a bonus photo to boot.

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