Portrait from Museum app

I haven’t been making watercolors because I’ve been busy with… well, life. I spent a couple of weeks working on Katy’s writing shed. I finished the drywall, mudding, taping, and sanding, and I laid the floor. It looks great. Then I went on two overnight hikes in Olympic National Park near Lake Crescent. So I’ve been busy.

But today I’m back in the studio, working on portraits. I made this portrait from a photo on the Museum app. This app is a platform where artists can upload their photos (“inspirations”) so that others can draw and paint them. It’s a young crowd, with lots of selfies.

I used the techniques described by Charles Reid in his book, Portrait Painting in Watercolor.