Portraits With Watercolours – Wet In Wet

A human’s face has different skin tones in its various sections – in a person with light complexion, the forehead has yellow tones whilst cheeks, noses and ears are pinker, and chins and jaws can have more purple/green/grey hues. For people with dark skin tones, we also observe lighter sections to the forehead, redder undertones to noses, cheeks and ears, and cooler browns for chins, jaws and temples. 

Exploring these colour differences is fascinating and the watercolour technique wet-in-wet works exquisitely to try this out.  We will learn how to paint a face in consideration of this colour distribution. We will put our watercolours into a line-drawing that we make from pencils. 

Sabine will provide a tracing template for a line-drawing so that learners can directly use this by tracing it through onto their watercolour paper. This will save us time and allows us to give our full concentration to working with the painting technique.

Friday 17th April, 2pm - 4.30pm

Please bring along

A4 watercolour paper

Masking tape and hard backing board (does not have to be a ‘proper’ drawing board’

Watercolours: basic colours (red, blue, yellow), plus: magenta, ochre, black, green, and, for dark complexions – red brown and dark, cool brown

Water container (we can provide)

Brushes: a size 10 brush and a size 1 or 0 (all round brushes)

loo roll or other soft tissue paper

Pencil (HB – the pencils should not be too soft else we get too dark lines)  and pencil sharpener

rubber

Please, check that you can use your bag or any other item on the table to lean the drawing board against so we get a steep angle for the watercolour paper