Friday, April 8, 2011

WIP Paint Party Friday

Late to the party
Not much to share except a little wine
I want to paint party Friday
and try something different.
This is one:
A watercolor face
without a sketch or plan
It just came out
and the water colors did their thing,
paper crinkled and warped
Not happy with it...
that's why it's a WIP,
know what I mean?
:-)

22 comments:

  1. well,
    yippeee for
    ~~self exploration & art~~

    :-)

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  2. Love the color of your WIP. The way watercolor naturally blend together are a joy to watch. Well Done! ;)

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  3. Gemma I love this! The colors are beautiful and I can't believe you didn't sketch the face first! I just watched a YouTube video when I was looking for inspiration for my PPF submission and the artist had the neatest trick. Instead of prestretching the paper, he uses clips and clips the paper onto a board. Once the paper starts getting wet and wants to buckle, he stretches it and reclips it to the board.

    I decided to try this as I'm not one to sit around waiting for paper to dry after stretching, nor do I have the room really and it works great! There was slight buckling because I'm using the backside of a clipboard and my paper is just a tiny bit larger but it's not curling like it normally would.

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  4. This is wonderful- the colrs and lines have the sort of freedom that you can't get with a drawn out "plan" I LOVE it! I try to work like this occasionally just to free myself and I usually don't like the results until after working on it a couple (or more;)) times...

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  5. I don't know, Gemma. I think her face is interesting and beautiful and there is your usual flair of whimsy. A lovely piece.

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  6. You don't like it? I think her expression is wonderful. Very contemplative. You can iron the back of the page (and the front if you cover with a blank paper first) with the iron set on a very low setting, like Nylon to flatten it back out. I have to do that with watercolors in my sketchbook because the pages warp a lot.

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  7. Very nice, the colors are amazing together and her eyes really pop.

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  8. Those eyes...they say so much. I think she's beautiful and I love the pinks and yellow lighting. They brighten her spirits.

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  9. Gorgeous...i love her eyes...she is very soulful and deep...beautiful! Lovely piece!
    Victoria~

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  10. Oh, Gemma! I LOVE her! The eyes...they ARE soulful, as Victoria says. The colors flow together so soft and beautifully. The paper can always be straightened out! :)

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  11. Gotta love those green eyes and red hair. She's a softness of beauty.

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  12. I love the watery softness to this and your colors... so fun that you did not sketch it first.

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  13. It sometimes happens with ls watercolors, eyes very much alive. Greetings

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  14. Beautiful colour blending and so brave to do it without a sketch, huge applause for you. Annette

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  15. Very soft and her hair is so lovely! Great work especially without a prior sketch or design to follow.

    Annabelle ~^..^~

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  16. WOW...her eyes are mesmerising! Wonderful job, Gemma ~ :)

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  17. Without a sketch! Amazing and confident I think.

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  18. I can't imagine why you are not happy with it...I love the colors, beautiful

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  19. its so soft and has a lovely feel about it!

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  20. I really like how the red hair and green eyes play off of each other :)

    Such a dreamy portrait...

    xo
    Kristin

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  21. Oh I like it as it is - it has a wonderful fantasy dreamy feel to it and I love her hair!

    Kat X
    I am so late getting to people, sorry about that.

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  22. She is very pretty and you didn't sketch first? Very nice!!

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