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| This is a piece of watercolor paper (student grade). I transferred the drawing and shaded outside the flower with watercolor pencil. I wet the top part already, I will also wet the bottom. I left it so you can see the WC pencil I put on. This is one of many things you can do for a background for pieces done on Dura-Lar Matte. I have used as backgrounds watercolor paper with painted textures, watercolor paintings, and colored paper. I often cut out the shape of the subject in white and place the white behind the subject on the textured or colored paper. |
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| This is the Dura-Lar placed over the background. Of course the subject and the background are not complete, but you can see the idea. Typically I would not make the background until the Dura-Lar piece was completed so I could decide which side will be the one on display. |
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| I worked more on the face adding lights and some darks. It still needs more darks and details, but it's getting there. It takes layers and time to finish. I worked a little on the cloth near the earring and the earring. On the earring I used canary yellow, white, terra cotta, scarlet lake). On the cloth I used canary yellow, spanish orange, white,pale vermillion and scarlet lake. I added canary yellow on the head scarf as I was talking about making sure the color used is placed around your piece. |