Catching Waves

9x6 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done over the past weekend for another WetCanvas Weekend Drawing Event, a timed exercise of 2 hours. Ref courtesy of the artist host; this is her son getting ready to ride the surf waves. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Surfer Dude - finished version

13x10 watercolor on matboard work in progress fiished today. I used touches of gouache to soften and mute out some of the more obvious black Micron pen lines and to add splatter in foreground water drops.

Surfer Dude step 3 WIP

Most of the colors are blocked in now with no more than 2 washes but I see I'll have to go back and correct values where shadows are and in his swimsuit. Plus, what about giving him a hairy chest? Yes!!! Water on right side will be painted maybe by tomorrow. For that I'm using Manganese blue, Prussian, and ultramarine and painting around white bubbles and splash marks for seafoam.