Dimple Girl ~ #sktchy #30days30faces Day 2

9x7 pen on sketchbook paper 80 lb done on 2 January for the next lesson in portraits as outlined by Sktchy app. Instructors choose real people who have put their own collection of face photos into the Museum app. No erasing with a pen! COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Model

22x15 watercolor on Saunders Waterford 140 lb cold press paper with primary colors underpainting from my photos of various manikins. The model's hair and face were drawn first from an unusual viewpoint below the figure's waist looking upwards. A number of these lifeless models were fashion plates, wearing the finest women's clothing, from a Margaret's store exhibit in Lubbock, Texas. The store was an icon of quality couture for many years. Of course I exercised my artistic license and changed her dress from red and black to these magenta and purple/pinks. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Closed Eyes Day 8 #30Facesin30Days woman

11x8.5 watercolor over graphite sketch on Strathmore Journal for mixed media done today for day 8 of the Sktchy challenge.  Participants are given an image plus instructions.  Today's was to mix your blacks and not use black.  For the most part I have used ultramarine blue + quinacridone burnt orange, then a mixed purple and an orange.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Actress Woman

9x6 mixed media (ink, watercolor, and gouache) on vintage book text done last week, another in my woman series with ink on book pages.  I used India ink and a chopstick to sketch in the facial features and lines.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith

Audrey

5x8 India ink, white gel pen and watercolor on paper done this past weekend letting paint and ink run.  This is another in my women series.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith.

Pensive Woman

9x8.5 alcohol inks on white freezer paper sketched today using only a wooden chopstick.  The woman was one of the models we had used before during a workshop I took in south Texas named Karen and this looks nothing like her.  Just another figure in my woman series.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith

Self Portrait #6

8.5x5.5 watercolor and ink (Micron 01 pen) on Masters sketchbook, number 6 in my self portraits.  I snapped a photo selfie with my cell, then drew this partial side view.  Tomorrow I'll post the group of them together in a collage type gallery.  This past week's Sketchbook Skool "Seeing" section was very entertaining and it is not easy drawing yourself from life, photos or memory.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Siren or Seductress

6x8.5 watercolor and ink line done over this past weekend.  This greeneyed beauty could be either a siren or a seductress.  It is up to the viewer to decide; another in my wild women series on ColorSketch paper.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.