As mentioned previously, I have a lot of watercolour paper who’s “sizing” is failing which enabled me to be less precious and conservative about using up my stacks of watercolour.
After splotching around, I thought I’d take human form for once. Why not some artsy nudes, completely from my imagination — which is probably more worrying than direct observation at a life drawing class …
You can see especially in my ‘lady’ portrait, that the colours aren’t flowing normally and look patchy which is the result of the treatment of the paper disintegrating.
I used Tombow and Crayola SuperTips pens and scratched in some basic shapes and blended them on the paper with water to get some blobby interesting shapes, I then go on to sprinkle in a little Brusho for further texture. To finish I outline and draw into the dried colour with fineliner and ink to create these little people.
