Playing around

This one didn't quite come off, but it almost did. What I really needed was to start with a bigger piece of paper—I needed more room for her hands, arms, and upper torso. And also, probably, to know what I was trying to pull off, instead of just throwing everything at it and hoping it would work.

I do like that it came out a little more painterly than some. The hands are kind of lame, but I left them somewhat undefined on purpose. The stencil in the background turned into kind of a mess so I partially obscured it and hoped it would look like wallpaper or something.

A good afternoon of practice and experimentation.

"Blonde Wig"—stencil, charcoal pencil, acrylics, Stabilo pencil, on watercolor paper, 16x12 inches.