🎨 🔴 Red portrait / watercolor painting

Once I heard one painter saying that if you want to sell painting easier, put some red color in it :)
Not sure if it works since I am ''blue color'' person. Blues go as well, I don't complain..But ok, red is red..
It explodes in front of our eyes, it seduces, it's color of love and passion, marked in our mind and body.
So no surprise people get hooked with it.

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Tried out some new paper, again :) It's HahneMuhler again but Bamboo 300 gr, smooth surface.
Very well for usage of watercolor with higher amount of water.
Simple pencil sketch was done, and right after it watered lower part with wide brush . On such watered surface applied strong spots of color. And than bend slightly surface, that color can melt.

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Same process applied on upper part with head crown.

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On close up you can see how much water and color is there. Also, while parts are still wet, with small drops another color is mixed into previous one.

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And here is image well dried, detail of it

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Another close up

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And whole piece at last .
You can see how color is stronger on edges, since water drops are making middle more transparent. That's the beauty of this process.

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Also, been thinking about empty space surrounding portrait and thinking of adding some background. But at the end decided to leave it like this. I was frightened that background will be too much with this red spots and will eat image.

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So, next one is coming soon, and hope you found this new one interesting .