Color study — girl of the day — inspired by a hair model in Real Simple magazine. When playing with color and shape, experimenting with method, I like working from images of people I don't know. It helps to reduce variables when I don't need to think about whether or not my drawing/painting looks like Gloria or Keith or Grandma, etc.
While working on this color sketch, I thought about position/angle of her head, head architecture, proportion, neutral color, linear movement, musculature of her neck, including the bonnet strings which is how Edgar Whitney referred to the sternocleidomastoid muscles of the neck.
Makes me smile to think of how Ed Whitney always encouraged us to think.
An aside: A student once told Ed, "If I knew I'd have to think so much, I wouldn't take taken this workshop."
