Bit of an experiment this week. Whenever I paint portraits I outline areas of colour. Before I apply any paint the picture looks like a complicated paint by numbers but without the numbers.
So this week I’ve painted a "paint by numbers" without the numbers. That is I’ve blocked in some areas and purposely applied flat washes of the same colours to different parts of the picture. In fact I"ve used eleven colours in all, and because they are water colours and near impossible to mix to the same colour again, I painted each "˜number" at the same time and all in one sitting.
Stand back (or shrink the picture) to get the best effect. I quite like it and might paint a few more piccies through the year in the same style.
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