Resa

9x7 watercolor for day 30 in April with the continued challenge of #30faces30days held by #sktchy. This young woman was a coworker of the featured artist and has a sweet smile. It is painted on sketchbook paper using White Nights paints. (Internet down yesterday so blog post couldn't be made. Day 29 was titled Milena's Mom 7x9 also sketchbook/White Nights paints that can be seen on DailyPaintworks.com in my gallery. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Toothpick Man

8.5x5 watercolor on brown paper, a portrait of a man with two toothpicks in his mouth done for day 21 of April's portrait challenge #sktchy #30faces30days. This guy was quite enjoyable to paint. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Jolene

8x6 watercolor on Fluid hot press 140 lb portrait done for day 18 in April as part of #sktchy challenge #30faces30days. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Woman in a Sari

9x7 watercolor in sketchbook 80 lb paper for day 17 during this April's portrait challenge by #sktchy. For the month students are given a video featuring a new muse usually in an interesting pose or character. For 30 days a portrait should be completed #30faces30days and I really enjoyed this woman in a sari to paint in monochromatic tones. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Boy in Red Hat

9x6 watercolor on Fabriano Bristol 100lb paper done for day 15 during this April's #sktchy challenge of #30faces30days. This boy was a fun muse to paint. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Rugged Man

8.5x5.5 watercolor in mixed media sketchbook 110 lb paper done second day in April for #sktchy #30faces30days challenge. For day two, this guy's rugged face made a real challenge for the artists. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Woman in Car

6.5x4.5 watercolor on tan paper done first day in April of #sktchy #30faces30days challenge. I used Inktense and white charcoal as well for this day one endeavor. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Jorge baseball player portrait

6.5x4.5 colored pencil, white charcoal on toned tan Strathmore paper done for day 14 of #Sktchy #30faces30days challenge in January. I enjoyed this young baseball player's lateral view for this portrait. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Turban Girl portrait

10.25x9 pencil portrait in sketchbook for day 10 of Sktchy #30faces30days challenge in January. I enjoyed this girl's fresh young face with her hair wrapped up. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

French Girl #30faces30days #sktchy day 27

10.25x9 ink sketch for day 27 of #sktchy #30faces30days annual challenge; this is on sketchbook paper using three different nib widths of Micron pens such as 005,03,and 08. Crosshatching for values took more than 2 hours. Instructor was Guillaume Piot (ref courtesy of). COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Tough Guy #sktchy #30faces30days Day 26

10.25x9 drawing pencil over charcoal powder underpainting done today for day 26 of the #sktchy annual portrait challenge #30faces30days. The challenge was to smear charcoal dust made by using sandpaper as I didn't have the commercial product onto paper then with erasers mark features and develop. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Eyebrow Guy

5.5x5.5 gouache on Arteza 110 lb cold press paper done last weekend, another Sktchy muse instructive lesson online in their #30faces30days endeavor. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Pink Lipstick Girl

14x11 watercolor, watercolor crayons, and Derwent Inktense wc pencils on Strathmore Toned Tan paper completed today. I used the pencils to sketch, crayons to lay in color pops, and watercolor for the overall filling in of this young black girl's features. The model is one of the Sktchy program's #30faces30days challenge this month focusing on watercolor and gouache applications. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Dreadlocks ~ Day 30 of #30Faces30Days Sktchy challenge

11x8.5 watercolor and ink (STA Lictin 0.2 pen) in Bienfang sketchbook completed today for the last portrait in the #30Faces30Days challenge.  I first sketched the muse in pen then added layers of purple, violet, magenta, quinacridones gold and burnt orange, thioindio violet, burnt sienna, raw sienna, aureolin, and transparent pyrrol orange.  I left his white jiu jitsu clothing the white of the paper to focus only on face and neck.  This one took about 2 days to do.
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Tattooed Woman ~ Day 29 of #30Faces30Days Sktchy

11x8.5 watercolor and ink line on paper, done for day 29 of #30Faces30Days Sktchy challenge.  Only one more face for me to do soon as January is over today.  With this model, I edited out many more tattoos that were all over her arms and hand.  A STA Lictin 0.3 pen used to sketch.
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Girl and Cardinals ~ Day 27 #30Faces30Days

8.5x5.5 watercolor and ink line on paper for day 27 of the Sktchy challenge #30Faces30Days.  In this exercise, only the girl's image was given and we had to improvise a story for the rest of it as to what she was looking at above.  I chose a pair of loving cardinals whose colors and pine needles went with her attire.
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Day 20 ~ Squinting Man #30Faces30Days challenge

10.25x9 colored pencil in orange for this man with his tightened up face, day 20's work for the online Sktchy challenge of using only one color.
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Day 19 ~ Marcel sketch #30Faces30Days

6.5x4.5 graphite and white pencil on toned sketch paper completed a few days ago for day number 19 of  Sktchy's online 30 faces in 30 days challenge.
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Day 18 ~ Curly Top Boy #30Faces30Days

10.25x9 ink on sketchbook page for day 18 of Sktchy online #30Faces30Days challenge.  For this young man I used a Uniball Vision Elite pen.
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Long Bearded Man ~ Day 15 #30Faces30Days

12.25x8 watercolor on Italia Magnani 140 lb cold press paper done today for Day 15 of the #30Faces30Days Sktchy online challenge.  This dude was quite spooky with his bald head and full salt & pepper beard.  The lesson was on using warm and cool colors.
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