She did this painting mostly in acrylic gouache on a birch board at 12x16 inches, but I did it almost exclusively in Daler-Rowney inks on paper. So some of my contrasts aren't as great (especially when using white transparent ink instead of white opaque paint), and the ink is more blendy than are the paints.
Also, poor Imogen's head is a little large here, compared to both her body and the wicker chair, which feel truncated, with the result that she looks about a decade younger than she actually is. But, over all this was fun—I got a kick out of her "sad clown" faces—and I enjoyed the novelty of painting an entire scene with a full figure instead of just a head! I need to do more of that. Mischief managed.
"Imogen"—pencil, Daler Rowney inks, on Fluid 140-lb. coldpress watercolor paper, 9x12 inches.
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