Model Woman ~ demo

12x9 India ink, white gel pen over collaged book text pages on watercolor paper, a demo done today for my Faces class.  Using a model's face from a magazine ad I sketched in the eye first with ink dropper and/or wooden chopstick. Water added to the ink made a soft grey tone value.  A second application was applied to her hair for darkest value.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith

Fashionista Fun

12x5 mixed media collage on gessoed matboard done today, part of my woman series.  I began these figures in 2008 that you can see HERE and they quickly were snapped up.
With a charcoal pencil I lightly sketched the woman's shape then put in her dark hair also with charcoal.  Diagonal lines of the buildings were next.  Watercolor was the main media and collage provided the detailed pattern on the white dress.  Her eyes were intentionally left out of the composition.  Manganese blue is the sky.  Some areas were lifted out and repainted which is easy on any support that has had gesso (white acrylic) applied.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

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