My project was a watercolor painting of my friend Sophie. I painted Sophie's face and part of her torso. In my painting, Sophie has turned her head to look at the viewer, which has cast the right side of her face in shadows. Watercolor is a paint that is thinned with water to create a transparent color.
In my project I used value to give Sophie's face depth. Value is the relative lightness or darkness of a color. I used differences in value when painting the skin tones of Sophie's face. The right side of her face has a darker value than the left side. This gradient of value helps show the contour of the face. There are even darker values of Sophie's skin tone in some creases in her face, like where her eyelid and dimples are. These darker values help distinguish different depths of her face. I used proportion in my project to make sure the subject looked as realistic as possible, by keeping the proportions of the face realistic. The face is about five eye-lengths wide, and the eyes are centered in the face. The bottom of the nose is about a fourth of the way up the face, and the corners of the subject's mouth end about halfway through the subjects eyes. By making sure parts of the face were proportionate to other parts, I have created a face that looks proportionately realistic believable. For this project, I was inspired by my friend's eyes. The friend that I painted has different colored eyes, and a unique shaped pupil, and wanted to emphasize that uniqueness by having her look at the viewer since eyes are naturally already centered on our heads. So I decided to paint her looking at the viewer while having her body face a slightly different direction to place more emphasis on the head. My piece emphasizes the subjects eyes by placing them in the middle of the paper, and through my choice of colors. The subject's right eye is more vibrant than the other brown's in the painting, drawing attention to it. The subjects left eyes, which is blue-green, is accented by using neutral colors throughout the painting and for the subject's clothes. I find the right side of the subject's face, the one in shadow, successful. I believe the brown eye achieved more emphasis that the green one, and the ear on this side of her face has more depth. The left side of Sophie's face was harder to paint because it was not covered in shadows and only had a few in certain areas. I learned a lot from this project. The main thing I learned was to be patient when layering up the painting. I learned it was important to let all the paint dry before adding more, because watercolors tend to dry a lighter color. I learned that by slowly adding on more paint, it is easier to paint shadows and creases in skin, than painting different hues on from the start. I also learned the importance of having proper paper. I accidentally used the wrong type of paper because of a small misunderstanding, and when I was painting, the paper kept peeling off from all the watercolors, making it hard to blend and achieve fine lines.
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