everyone else is working on more portrait work, my emphasis has been to encourage you to learn the proportions of a face, be observant, trust your judgement, and portray the image tonally, since it is tone which you truly see and which defines the three dimensional nature of the world around us. So we have had some gorgeous monotone watercolour paintings. This is a really effective way to portray a face, and the restriction to one colour, (though it needs to be a dark colour so that you can use it both very pale and very intensely, one of the subtle and wonderful advantages of watercolour) encourages you to focus on tone and not fret about flesh colours. Working with two colours will be next....
I will take some photos to put up here to show you next week, in the meantime keep looking at every face you can and notice all the aspects we have been looking at, eyes halfway up the head, and so on and so on, and notice what a small proportion of the head the actual face really is.
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