I finished up Lisa's book today. I've been experimenting with water soluble graphite lately and this book seemed to fit in well with that. Robin's entry before mine was a large facial spread in pencil. I'm pretty happy overall with my painting of Lisa, not so much of myself. I would have preferred to leave myself out completely! Maybe I just need more self portrait practice. It was difficult to even find a picture of myself. But rules are rules :D
I hope you like it Lisa. Oh also, this is just a snap taken with my iPhone. I'll scan a hi-res image tomorrow and post it to flickr.
Edit: I added the scanned image.
4 comments:
Yay Chris this looks great!! Water soluble graphite? Never heard of it. I'll have to find some and try it out too. Thank you so much for the wonderful portraits =)
Hi Lisa,
The watersoluble graphite is kind of like watercolor sticks. You can draw right on the page with them and then apply water. I tend to apply my brush right to the stick and then brush the page like a painting. The ones I have are made by Derwent and come in 2B, 4B, 6B and 8B. I really like them, but I tend to like pencil type sketching a lot.
Great entry Chris. I like the framing, it gives a good jump off spot to the next person.
Chris/Lisa
Did this book go to Marty for the show or is it elsewhere?
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