At the moment I find myself with a few days while I allow several projects to follow their natural course through the development process. And so I have this small personal piece in the works. At the top in brown pencil is the initial sketch that came during a doodle session and below is the tracing I made in order to clean up the image and make it easier to trace on to a piece of watercolour paper. With any luck I will have a chance to paint this before everything kicks back into gear.
11 comments:
What a fab talent. Inspirational blog to visit. In the middle of a makeover,wish I had your magical wand to sprinkle a few illustrations ...
Great stuff Larry. I was wondering if you could enlighten me on how you trace finished roughs onto watercolour paper. Do you use a lightbox or some other method?
"WOW" Larry, I look forward to seeing the finished painting. xxx
Jay - Yes I use a light box and normally do not feel the need to retrace a drawing but I'm using 300 pound paper this time and a second tracing for clarity was required due to the papers' thickness. I'd rather not trace a drawing more than once because you lose some of the original spirit each time but in this case I pretty much had to. The original brown pencil drawing did not really come through the paper.
Thanks UB and good luck with your makeover.
Thanks Craig :)
Thanks Tiny Pearl - me too :)
Just love this and can't wait to see how she turns out! Pauline
Nice composition! I'm glad you're busy yet finding time for this.
Pauline , Ben - Thanks guys. I'm not sure when I'm going to get another break so I wanted to paint this one while I had a chance.
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