I stopped in at the local art store because I wanted to try some gouache paint. (Similar to watercolor except it’s opaque). It was suggested that I try this new product, so I bought it. It’s acrylic so it dries with a satin finish…..and with these 4 colors I get to mix and make any color I want…..well….almost!
I seem to be my most willing subject when inspiration strikes…so off I went to get my main man to get a decent shot. Then I posterized it.
Then I transferred the image onto 12” x 12” watercolor paper.
Mixed up a red acrylic with the Splash paints and put the yellow on straight.
Then brought in pink and orange. I exaggerated some of the features with some add-on shapes. (This looks like I’m applying make-up for Halloween)
Had a lot of fun in this area, changing the shapes and colors for the hair strands.
Used watercolor for a few of the colors here: Blue, Orange, Pink and the green background…..I did NOT trust my ability to mix the acrylics properly.
When it was dry, I went in with my handy-dandy black XS Faber Castel marker to enhance.
Ta-da…now I have a new selfie…profile pic. Yikes….and looking at this again, it looks like I have no nose! I could rename this Voldemort-style!!
7 comments:
How cool and thanks for the mini art lesson!! Gonna try this myself!!
It's a fun little artsy drawing....and you really don't need to use a lot of different colors! Good luck :)
Love it !!! Please comment on posterizing...may have missed this technique as I am a new follower.
Thanks much,
Marilyn
Hi Marilyn....It's a photoshop technique, but my android phone has it too, and possibly gimp! Try a google search. Good Luck :)
How did you posterize your pic?
Love the idea!
got it...
thanks for the inspiration.
missie
Hi missie, I'm glad you found what you were looking for! Possibly a posteriize post is in my future :)
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