Watercolor portrait of a boy from photo
Watercolor demo by Yong Chen. I wanted to demonstrate a different process of painting a portrait from photograph. In this 30 minute portrait painting, I started with a big wash with an 1inch flat hake brush onto almost everywhere except the light areas in the eyes and the ear. Having a wetpaint surface provides the playground to make some development, the first thing is that you can use liftingoff technique to take some color to make the softlight areas, and secondly you can add dark
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