Annabelle with color ~ Day 18 #sktchy#30faces30days

9x7 pencil sketch for day number 18 in last month's #Sktchy challenge; I've added watercolor to the original portrait. Sktchy challenges such as these are where participants do one portrait a day in pen or pencil or different media. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Thinking Woman

7x5 ink and Brusho watercolor crystals on vintage book page done last week, a face emerging from the shadows as she thinks about her next move.
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Traveling Woman

12x9 mixed media on Canson 140 lb cold press wc paper completed today after a couple days work, another in my woman series. Beginning with several acrylics a primary color background was brushed on, then India ink applied with a chopstick for the features on this imaginary woman.  White areas then had watercolors put in, then lastly paper collage figure, receipt date, and postage stamps from Canada collaged.  Splattering was done with watercolor.
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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.
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Smiling Woman

8x6 mixed media collage on matboard done today.  Sketched with a black ink marker on top of collaged newsprint, paper, white acrylic paint was used along with Montana acrylic markers.  Watercolor crayons provided facial shadows.
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Femme Fatale

9x6 watercolor, Brusho and black India ink on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done today.  Yesterday I started the underpainting background that was thalo blue brushed onto semi-wet paper.  After that dried, quinacridone violet was scattered about, then a stencil used with transparent pyrrol orange/Peachy Keen mix; the orange Brusho crystals were next sprinkled on top.  Today I used black ink to do only the darkest darks from an old movie star photo of Garbo. It's for the August challenge on WetCanvas' abstracts and contemporary forum where I asked participants to make an abstract background then use line to add parts of a face, etc. 
Definition:

A femme fatale is a stock character of a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. She is an archetype of literature and art. Wikipedia

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Halloween Woman ~ day 11 of 30 paintings in 30 days challenge

8.5x6 ink using Sharpie fine point pen on ColorSketch pink tinted paper, an imaginary zendoodle face that is frightful for sure.  I call this scary one Halloween Woman and she is featured for this 11th day of Leslie Saeta's 30 paintings in 30 days challenge.  If you see her around town, run!
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Vamp or Vixen?

8.5x6 mixed watermedia (watercolor, inks, Caran D'Ache watersoluble crayons) on ColorSketch paper done today, an imaginary woman to be included in my wild women series. I drew her using Pigma Micron 01 pen then her eyes with black felt tip.  Watercolor was next and when totally dry I used the ws crayons for accents.  Lastly, black India ink was applied for line emphasis here and there.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.