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I created this portrait using gouache as part of my ongoing training at Watts Atelier. For this one, I used Winsor & Newton gouache. I used the colours: Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red and Ivory Black, as I was taught on the course. Gouache on watercolor Paper 21c30cm.

tell me which ones your favorite!

Number 4 Gandalf was done several month ago, Gandalf #1 was done yesterday. Interesting to see how my style changes from month to month.

Kiln fired traditional stained glass by Valerie Fairlight.

(My own original works on bristol and art paper. Mediums range from acrylic, gouache, copic ink, felt pen, and pencil, 2026.)

I recently started this series of female figure drawing portraits in an facebook art group where I asked for volunteers who wanted to be drawn, expecting maybe 10 or 20 people to comment or message. To my surprise, I got nearly 100 responses! These are a selection from the first 20 or so of those who asked to participate with a few extra requests from museum and here on reddit. What I'm hoping comes across with these finished pieces is a sense of admiration and sensitivity to the female form, coupled with candid and fun moments captured in my random blend of western comic-book and "pseudo-postimpressionistic" styles.

I've been drawing portraits of strangers i meet for the past 12 years or so, but this series has been one of my most successful yet both in reception and how happy I am with the resulting artwork. Part of the motivation for starting this project was to a) get over my lingering conservative protestant guilt over nudity in art, b) explore a more vulnerable and intimate side of portraiture than my usual portraits do, and c) brush up on female figure proportions as practice for a women-led animated series I'm working on (since I spent over 50% of my childhood and teenage years drawing Spider-Man and other male superheroes. 😆)

Anyway, if you got this far, thank you for reading! Feel free to message me if you're interested to hear about (or see) more of my projects and artwork. 😌 Cheers!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/portraits.international

Museum: https://museumapp.co/portraitsinternational