Addendum to #34

My doe-eyed guy gazed out at me all day, looking more and more pathetic, until I decided tonight about 10:00 that what he needed was a lovely lady to keep him company and shore up his sensitive personality.

I repeated some of Deb's lesson, but did some of my preliminary mark-making with a soluble red pen so that the paper would have a faint pink tint here and there. I laid down acrylic inks in orange, pink, and lime green, and also used green acrylic to make the cheek smudge. She is a pale redheaded beauty, so I whitened her cheeks, forehead, nose, and shoulders with white gesso. I gave her some tissue paper eyebrows to go with his, and some purple freckles, although they were meant to be lighter and more transparent, so I added some white scribbles to brighten them a bit. She has some odd background shapes to go with his, so that they look like they are occupying the same "universe." I had big fun!

She's prettier and less wonky than he is, but that's okay—it will buck him up to have a gorgeous girl on his arm.

"Rooney"—pencil, charcoal, red pen, acrylic inks, Uniball pen, collage, white and black gesso, white gel pen, on Fluid 140-lb. coldpress watercolor paper, 9x12 inches.