Introduction: This class focuses on creating a whimsical ‘Flower Girl #1’ portrait. You will see my example worked through from beginning to end. We are using an old book as an art journal. I will have two extra templates of portraits for you to sketch and practice. You can print out on thick paper stock and gesso lightly, before painting them, or sketch as I did. You should also learn a little about layering different mediums to achieve a final exciting result.

Tools & Process

White Gesso the whole (Journal) Page. Let surface dry.
Use weak hand for drawing initial sketch with a pencil, you will get interesting variations on lines from this technique. Happy mistakes. Practice a few of these on separate piece of paper.
Watercolour layer, pick exciting unusual colours. Don’t be scared it will mostly get covered in the process. It encourages experimentation. Just think what colours do I never use. Use at least three out of your normal selection. Basically shade in a tonal quality. You can scrape this layer with a catalyst wedge, old credit/store cards or any other scraping tool you have to hand.
Once the watercolour dries you could use a marker pen selection to scribble and add to the sketchy technique or fill in bold areas like eyes and hair or background.
Acrylic layer Is next in this mixed media class. Work on the hair. In this class it’s black. But you can pick another colour in your experimenting. Remember it will affect the colours you use in the flowers. Contrast is key.
Final layer can be more acrylic, maybe a metallic acrylic colour, more marker pens or oil paintstik.

Example Video Of Bright colourfilled Painting Process(was meant to insert sample in class): Example of my Colourfilled Digital Art

Heather Kuhns

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