The watercolor portrait of my son, "All in a Day's Work" was discussed in an earlier blog where I shared some ideas on how to self-critique a work-in-progress. I'd like to walk you through the steps that were taken in working this piece to completion. [...]
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You have a great photograph that you've chosen to use as a reference for a painting; unfortunately, there are areas where the image is very dark and it's difficult to see details. What to do? [...]
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How do you decide what your painting needs? How do you know when it's finished? Taking a sequence of photographs throughout the painting process can help you to assess your progression at various stages of development and give you clues as to what to do next. It's simple: just use your cell phone camera to capture an image of your painting at the end of each work session. I demonstrated the first layer of this piece during my recent Painting the Portrait in Watercolor workshop. On the subsequent layer, you can see that I've added a cool background glaze and begun to work [...]
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