Fine Art by Canadian Artist

Fine Art by Canadian Artist Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki
Watercolor Portrait Demo - Life emerging from paper...


Step 1 - detailed drawing in graphite on paper	Drawing Tools - pencils, kneaded eraser, razor blade, sandpaper, easel

Step 2 - Drawing transferred with carbon paper to 140lb stretched watercolor cotton rug paper	Drawing board setup with a reference photo

Step 3 - Drawing refined with pencil	Step 4 - Entire paper saturated with clean water, left to dry completely

Step 5 - Cobalt blue in dark areas (wet-in-wet) of flesh/hair, light flat wash of Aureolin yellow everywhere else	Cobalt blue watercolor and bushes	Step 6 - Few more layers of cobalt blue

Step 7 - Mix of Terre Verde and Burnt Umber to modify to shapes further	Mix of Terre Verde and Burnt Umber (Olive Green)

Step 8 - Milky flat wash of Naples Yellow over all flesh/hair	Milky wash of Naples yellow with a flat brush

Step 9 - Mixture of Cobalt Blue and Burnt Sienna in dark areas, modeling the shapes	Mixture of Cobalt Blue and Burnt Sienna (Grayish Violet)

Step 10 - Red Light in flash/hair areas, except in the lightest lights, Terre Verde in the background and shadows, permanent rose for the blouse	Permanent Rose, Terre Verde and Red Light washes

Step 11 - Light wash of Raw Sienna over flesh and hair	Very light Raw Sienna wash

Step 12 - Cerulean blue into fatty tissue areas and viridian green in shadows	Very light cerulean blue and viridian green washes

Step 13 - Blotchy wash of brown madder over all flash and hair (uneven brushstrokes)	Milky wash of brown madder

Step 14 - Light wash of French Ochre over flesh and hair	Very light French Ochre wash

Step 15 - Dark mix of Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber and French Ochre for hair	Dark mix of Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber and French Ochre

Step 16 - Venetian Red in dark areas of face and arms, fine lines and details	Venetian Red is in the middle (Brown Madder on top, Light Red below)
	The last step is open game, lot of work on the fabric, jewlery, bringing in the background and fabric colors into the face and hair in small highlights, and the most important - final light touches of Sennelier Red into the rosy areas of the face and arms, especially the tip of the nose, cheeks, ears, lips. Tiny, barely visible touches of Chinese White in the jewlery, lips, nose and eyes.
Step 17 - Finished painting, I named it "Primrose"