watercolor portrait

Here's a speed watercolor portrait done on A5 sketch book.  I was not particular about capturing the likeness of the subject. The main intent was to experiment the process and pick one or two tips from it for future attempts.

Mamta watercolor

This is a watercolor painting of a south indian actress and playback singer, if you are curious to know more about her please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamta_Mohandas
I've made a youtube video of how I approached this one, please feel free to leave a comment or suggestions.  You can view it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlrnl5hEuDU

urmila, failed attempt

watercolor on sketchbook

lonely

This picture was posted by one of my friend in instagram. It was really appealing since the light and shadows were making patterns and reflections which we couldn't resist to mark in to the sketchbook.  I don't believe I've done justice to this one. But with my limited watercolor skills I've captured it and here's the result.

watercolor portrait

The intention was to get the values right.  I happened to watch the portrait painting tutorial by Stan Miller in youtube.  It said to stress on getting the values right and not the colours.  This was an experiment keeping that in mind.  I believe I've to improve on the brush strokes.

deepika padukone

Used grid technique to get the outlines correct and plunged into watercolors!!!  Hope this turned out well.

2017 wrapping up.

Hopefully this would be the last watercolor portrait that has been done in 2017!  Still more to improve I know...

Venkateswaran Dakshinamoorthy

People who enjoy and love the carnatic based movie songs will be very much aware of this beloved soul.  Not much explanation or story required to introduce this piece, I believe!  The motive was to finish the strokes with less than an hour and that was accomplished.  Could have improved more, but this looked satisfactory.

Shobana

This is the first post of the year, the subject is one of my favorite dancer.  It took less than an hour of one sitting(approx 50 mins) to make this. Hopefully I'm exploring and picking up the nuances of dynamic nature of this medium .  The size is about 1/4th of an A4 sheet :)

watercolor portrait

In my search for improvement towards watercolor portraits, this comes out as the latest one:) .  How's this?

temple pond

This was a wet on wet study on one of my favorite cool subject - "ambalakkulam".  As I do for most of my works, was very much concerned about the result. But with that thought in mind it took much longer than expected.  This work was on my easel for long - unfinished.  Just changing the mindset from being result oriented to 'enjoy the process of doing it' helped me signing it in this shape :)

Rainy day

This was an experiment, I got the reference pic online and tried to "do it my way". Hope you enjoy looking at it :)

farm land

I just glanced to figure out how many posts I've made this year. The result was very disappointing, only one! Usually everywhere people set some targets and try to achieve it. Here in this place I don't follow a plan/target as such, but here on I'm trying to stick to two posts per month(that adds upto 24 posts per year) on an average. Okay that sounds like a plan!!! and here's the first post in that direction.
I got a reference picture, and tried to reproduce it. Don't know whether I've done justice. But this is how it looked finally..

guess who?

This was a speed paint. I'm happy with the way it came out. Seems like I'm improving my skills in water color.

landscape

that's another one. The photo looks better than the originals from my sketchbook. Actually this was clicked by one of my friend and shared it to me.

Jane

Yeh.... here comes the fourth in the water color face study series, the picture is not of high clarity(I need to get a nice camera).

Kamalhassan watercolor

I-m-proving...........
You can take it either as "I'm proving" or "Improving". Both fits well in my perspective :). Here's the third one  from the series. I enjoyed doing it, hope you won't get bored looking at it.

sps.

Ilayaraja watercolor

Here comes the second effort, I'm quite happy with how the ears came out. Even though the color mixing dragged me to some extent, it was fun.

yes here also, scope for improvement. right?

Leonardo dicaprio watercolor

Yes, after the initial resistance I've started playing with colors, Of course I'm not sure whether I've done justice or not but here comes the results...

this was done on my sketchpad(120 gsm and A4 size) with camel student grade watercolor. I feel like there is scope for more improvement, what do you say?

ps: the picture is of low quality as I've clicked it with my outdated phone, I'll try to upload a scaned version of this :)
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water color

Searched to try with a palette knife, but couldn't get it. So tried with a fork! yes this painting was done with a fork and minimal use of brush :). The patterns created by the fork were excellent, next time I'll do one with a palette knife.