Today I’m taking you on a walk-through chitchat in my watercolour portrait practice sketchbook.
This book came out of my ongoing exploration of different watercolour sketchbooks for a couple months now. This one isn’t the top of my list, but for the price point and ease of use, I would recommend it. It’s always great to have something fun to play and learn in, without feeling like you can’t start because you paid too much! You know what I’m talking about: the dreaded blank page syndrome!
This one is Canson XL spiral bound and perforated. I personally am not a big fan of spiral bound sketchbooks but I think because this one is a bit bigger I’m not finding it so bad.
My focus here is to have a sketchbook to learn and play with variations on a three colour watercolour paint palette.
In opposition to bigger portraits, which I can spend days or weeks on, I wanted a place to experiment with doing something a bit faster. I started out with one hour portraits and they’ve kind of crept up. Although the last one I think I spent at least three because I wanted to see where it would go if I kept painting. And I’m really happy with the result.
After trying some different paint combinations, I’ve discovered that I really love the variety I’m getting with Daniel Smith’s Quinacridone Coral, QOR Green gold and QOR Payne’s Gray. These three have given such a diverse variety of skin tones! I’m still surprised at it with each portrait I’m doing.
Hope you enjoy the walk-through and my commentary
Leave a questions or comments below – or just say hi. You know I love chatting with you :-)
Jump in the chat room and have some fun!
As a final reminder, we are a small group of coming up to 45 members. For now, all the activity is happening in the chat room.
I created this space for all of us to have some human to human contact with peers who are doing similar subjects. As I said in the video, don’t let years of conditioning through social media let you think you can only share the best of your best work. We all have days where the ugly phase makes us wanna quit or the paint isn’t doing what you want or you can’t get the freaking proportions right. So don’t be shy. Jump in one of the threads and connect or start one of your own.
Look forward to hanging out with you and I’ll chat with you next time
Tanya
