Expressions

I save photos that people post when they have interesting, difficult expressions on their faces, and eventually get around to drawing/painting them. This is one of our teachers for Let's Face It, Sabra Awlad Issa, who usually has a solemn, sort of deadpan expression, so when she posted this goofy face I knew I had to use it!

This is sort of a Deb Weiers production—I did the drawing first, in Uniball pen, and then washed it with two colors of Daler Rowney Acrylic inks, followed by a paint job with white gesso and watercolors, finishing up with white and gold pens for highlights and details on the glasses. I had fun.

"Sabra," 9x12 on 140-lb. coldpress.