Painting 33

Ref 870  Watercolor,.- Painting Portraits
Unlike any other médium, everything in watercolor is timing. the second the watercolor wash is applied, it is a constantly moving entity, and is in a different state of dryness. the color pigment suspended in wáter it is constantly changed its carácter as it dries.- with practice you will need to know when it is necessary a wet wash,  dump wash or a dry brush as well as the other fundamentals such as the exact momento to charge in a complementary color or perhaps to lift in a haze light, I did additional washes in may next painting combining 2 washes of different colors after initial underpainting or base color painting, so where the two color mix I´ll acchieve the beautiful neutral color I glazed with blue cerulean and ochre in different steps and different required áreas background need to stablish the lightest áreas of the whole painting
Tips in portraits
The eyes in a portrait have to be exact to get the likeness.
Study the shape of the socket, angles and thickness of brow, relationship of brow to eye, line of eye, curve of lids, fold line, lashes, colour of iris, and the lines and wrinkles.
Fold line and wrinklesFold line - shows that the eye is open and the upper lid is folded back on itself.
The look changes with partially closed or fully open lid.
Extremely important line for likeness, observe angles, colour, spacing closely.

Common Mistake: not making the fold line dark enough or not observing its contour.

Pupil
The pupil is a hole – the darkest part of the face
It is always centered in the iris.
It is round unless seen from the side.
It determines the direction of gaze – THEY MUST LOOK AT THE SAME PLACE

Common Mistake: making the pupil off center in the iris, not round, not dark enough, looking in different directions.

Iris (coloured part)Bottom lid just barely overlaps the lower edge of iris and the top lid slightly covers more of top edge of the iris (usually 2mm).
A darker outer edge is common.
Make dots and lines of colour, not a solid shade
Pupil in the center

Common Mistake: too much iris showing, not round

Highlights
They are the brightest part of the face and often surrounded by dark
Hard edges of reflections show a wet surface.
Highlights follows curve of eye.
A whole other story can be shown in the highlights. They can reflect the light source, surroundings or the photographer/artist.

Common Mistake: not observing highlights accurately

Sclera (whites of the eyes)
Not really white – save brightest white for highlight
Pinker toward inner corner and a little pink on outer corner
Most of the shading showing the eyeball is round, occurs on the sclera. The values can be very dark.
It can reflect local colours in it.

Common Mistake: flat, white sclera and forgetting the shadow under the upper lid

Lashes
Unless close up, only suggested
Grow from outer edges of lids
Length varies and width tapers to ends
Tangled, down swept then up on top lid
Not evenly distributed across lid

Common Mistake: start from wrong place, too uniform, too long.

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