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I'm currently playing around with watercolours. Those of you who have me on Facebook will know that I'm chronicling my progress on a daily basis; this is the fifth day, and here's my description, copypastaed from FB:

"Day 5: Attempted to paint using a reference at last, specifically a self-portrait. I think I gave up all pretenses of realism around about the time I started crying tears of liquid cobalt. I am, however, rather pleased with a lot of the fading and bleeding effects, and am growing more and more comfortable with mixing colours and playing around with opacity using water and brushstrokes and whatnot. Need to work on my highlights - will start experimenting with white paint as well. It's interesting to explore the potential that WC has to create very abstract looking portraiture - a branch worth exploring."

It's amazing what you can do when you just say "Fuck it, nobody knows what the original image looked like."

Description
I'm currently playing around with watercolours. Those of you who have me on Facebook will know that I'm chronicling my progress on a daily basis; this is the fifth day, and here's my description, copypastaed from FB:

"Day 5: Attempted to paint using a reference at last, specifically a self-portrait. I think I gave up all pretenses of realism around about the time I started crying tears of liquid cobalt. I am, however, rather pleased with a lot of the fading and bleeding effects, and am growing more and more comfortable with mixing colours and playing around with opacity using water and brushstrokes and whatnot. Need to work on my highlights - will start experimenting with white paint as well. It's interesting to explore the potential that WC has to create very abstract looking portraiture - a branch worth exploring."

It's amazing what you can do when you just say "Fuck it, nobody knows what the original image looked like."