I've been saving this reference photo for a while, and today she seemed the perfect subject to try out the new, wet-brush loose technique I learned in the lesson on Tuesday, so I sketched her out in pencil and went to town. It could still be looser in some respects, and maybe more colorful and less blended as well, but I'm pretty pleased. That great cloud of hair was challenging, but I just kept painting until it looked sorta right. I couldn't resist using my rigger brush to do the lace on her shirt, although she got purple instead of the black she was wearing, just to provide yet more interest.
"Alessandra"—pencil and Paul Jackson watercolors
on Fluid 140-lb. coldpress watercolor paper, 9x12 inches.
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