Today's was an impulse when I saw that one of my new friends from Deb Weiers's Wonky class was having a birthday. (I wish Facebook would give me the heads up a day or two before, instead of on the day!) I'm a big fan of Denise Malm's work, and decided to do a portrait of her as an homage.
In case anyone wonders, yes, she has freckles! Short of putting them in individually, which would take more time than I had today, I did random spatter to convey the general idea. I'm not very GOOD at spatter, so they don't look exactly like hers, but hopefully she won't mind.
I ended up putting the quote and greeting in afterwards, using Photoshop, because I thought if the portrait were to be framed later, having the birthday stuff on it would make it too specific/dated.
Pencil, Uniball, Signo white gel pen, white gesso, Daler Rowney inks, watercolor, on Fluid coldpress 140-lb. watercolor paper, 7x12 inches.
This was such an awesome surprise! Love the freckles!! You are an amazing artist and friend!
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