Similar subject, new palette

It seems I wasn't done with my break from portraits (or so I thought), so on Wednesday I painted a new substrate on a birch board, on Thursday I stenciled it, and on Friday I glazed over that, and did the preliminary drawing of the still life I was going to paint. But in the process, something happened that caused me to create another work.

My new palette was primarily shades of pink, and as usual I squeezed out way too much paint for the job. My teacher Emma Petitt is always commanding, "Don't waste paint!" so after finishing my substrate, I pulled out a reference photo and some watercolor paper and used the pinks to paint the underlayer of a face. On Thursday there were some colors left over from the stenciling, so I used them to create a background behind the portrait. Today I glazed over that and squeezed out tiny dabs of the five colors I needed to complete the portrait, and here she is: Emma, being goofy!

"Goofy Emma"—Pencil, acrylics, and stencils, on coldpress watercolor paper, 9x12 inches.