Welcome, lovely humans, to The Painted Presence Project, where I plan to paint in silence for ten minutes a day for thirty days, all on the same 11 x 15 inch piece of watercolour paper. While this studio diary will only include images, there are full length videos available on Patreon!
I spent some time refining her features and adding a bit of shading with an India Red Pitt pen. It felt good to make some sense of her eyes, and reshape her mouth.
I added pupils with the black brush tip pen and then lightened up the area around her iris with gold paint.
She’s starting to look like an iconic portrait now, and while that wasn’t my intention going in (I had no intention going in!) that makes me happy. I haven’t done an iconic portrait in a very long time. My taste for those waned with my vision through the ever worsening cataract saga, and I wasn’t sure I’d ever paint one again, but here she is. An icon.
No time for more today! My eyes are finally working well enough that I can work for more than ten minutes at a time so I’m filming a lesson for my Sweet Trash folks over on Patreon. It’s so good to be able to do that, y’all. I’m so, so grateful!
See you tomorrow,
xo Effy
P.S. Folks who are in my classes over on Into The Wild (my teaching network) or Patreon are getting video content every day throughout the course of this challenge. Folks who are subscribed to my YouTube channel will be getting video updates weekly or so. There may be stuff going up on TikTok. There will definitely be posts going up on Instagram.
Of course, this spot right here will ALSO serve as my studio diary, so I hope you’ll bookmark the site, and hey! EVEN BETTER! I hope you’ll sign up for the e-list, which I’ll use to let you know when a new post goes live. If you want the project PDF, here you go!