Artistic Biker Watercolor Wednesday Alan

Most Wednesdays I pull a photo from one of my Facebook friends public profiles and watercolor it. This week, it was my pal Alan.

Draw the basic outline in watercolor pencil

Hit the darkest shadows with a warm color

Use neutrals to fill out contours

Use a cool to begin the shading

Fill with the common skin tone

Define hard edges with indigo

Alternate warms and cools to define tonal edges

Don’t be afraid to push the darks

You can see a speed painting of this at The You Tube here: https://youtu.be/L5IFaPxBCmg

Watercolor Flow Demo

I played with some watercolors and their natural flow and watched it not work on cue.

Watercolor Flow Demo Example in finished painting

Watercolor Flow Demo abstract colors

Watercolor Flow Demo 3 A Duck

Draw a shape with clean water

Watercolor Flow Demo apply watercolor to the outline of the shape

Watercolor Flow Demo allow the colors to flow together

You can watch the demo in real time at The You Tube here: https://youtu.be/fDhpOLB7N88

artistic biker church sketch

With the beginning of February I’m pretty sure your New Year’s resolutions to go to the gym more often and lose weight are starting to wane. Time to introduce some new habits. I have a couple of friends running some encouraging programs in February

.Jeanette Jobson has a daily sketch habit group on Facebook for the entire month.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/909589742476326/

It is a closed group so she can keep out the negative folks and you can feel free to sketch and share it only with those of a like mind. Click on the link and it’ll take you there to request to join.

Next up is Ayala Art. She runs the 29 Faces group on the Facebook. Every February and September she encourages folks to draw one human(ish) face a day for at least 29 days.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/29faces/

29 Faces is also a closed group but again it’s just to keep out the looky loos and nay sayers. Head on over their and give her a shout so you can play along.

And of course, my daily sketch habit is ongoing.

Here at the blog I post the reference photos and my interpretation of them weekly as well as maintain a gallery of past references. I also post them daily to The Artistic Biker Facebook page, and have just started a group so you can share your works as well:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtisticBikerDailySketchClub/

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