Free Watercolor Lessons & Techniques
Painting in Watercolor: Alyssa's Portrait
By Margaret Crowley-Kiggins, FWS
Step Four : At this point I am ready to paint some detail in the facial area. I mix a darker skin tone and shape the face. I pay very close attention to the eyes, because this is the area people most identify with so they have to be accurately rendered.
Step Five: I mix some cadmium red light and permanent rose and paint her lips. I continue to bring out her features with successive layers of skin tone color. I also add detail to her hair- thinking of it in terms of "chunks" of color- not individual strands.
Step Six: Now I begin to paint in the background so that I can use some of that deep color to draw around her, bringing her into the immediate foreground.
