Self Potratits

The past few weeks we have been working on self portraits. First we started off with a large white piece of paper. We then sketched a drawing of our face from a photograph we had. Once we had a sketch we were satisfied with we outlined it in black sharpie.  Not too much detail. The next step was to fix up a paint color of your choice, the only rule was not to use white or black. When you had the color you were satisfied with you then took a smaller piece of paper and cropped out a section of your face onto the smaller piece of paper. The reason for doing so is so that you could practice. These smaller pieces of paper with paint on them are called color study's. With your custom color you then could add white or black to see how light or dark the color would become. Right not i'm only on my first color study. The color I created was an orange and now i'm trying to figure out how to show shading through paint. It's been challenging, but i'm getting there. Once i'm satisfied with my paint job i will ink the piece of paper and let it dry. Then I will use water to wash off the ink and an abstract painting of part of my face will be produced. It's going to take me a while to figure out what I like before actually starting to work on my huge picture, but I will keep you updated! A picture will be coming soon with my first color study.