Color Sketch of a Girl: painting w colors from The Old Masters' Palette + Blue
Last week while painting I ran rampant with color. Today I limited colors to those employed by the Old Masters: Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, and Payne's Gray. And I added Cobalt Blue.
To start, I did a pre-painting drawing directly on the (dry) watercolor paper. I firmed outlines with a rigger brush using cobalt blue watercolor, then reaffirmed some lines with a Derwent pencil in Dark Indigo.
Because the flip side of my paper featured one of my unsuccessful (very colorful!) paintings, I immersed the sheet in a basin of cold water and placed the paper unpainted side up on a Masonite board. I soaked excess water with a large natural sea sponge, picked up a flat brush, loaded it with Yellow Ochre and launched into placing paint on the wet paper.
Exciting! It's always fun to watch what happens. A brush stroke loaded with a particular color might work — or it might not.
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