Just a quick reminder to let everyone know I am still accepting commissions for Mother’s Day portraits. Once again, I offer several options for your choice of medium. Creating a black and white portrait in graphite pencil or pen and ink is always a nice choice to compliment any decor. To add a touch of color to your walls… a portrait [...]
The colored pencil study is complete. The last stage of the portrait is done by reworking color near color in deeper shades. To blend color seamlessly, I use either a colorless pencil or a white colored pencil and repeat the circling technique over the color stain previously done. This gives the portrait an oil painting-like effect. The last [...]
The newest portrait in my colored portrait series is based on another of Jennifer Rasmussen’s photographs. The photograph I used as my reference and inspiration is posted below. I plan to use colored pencil as the main medium for this portrait. I begin this study lightly creating the basic line work in graphite pencil. This is done with a soft [...]
