Lots of Exquisiteness

It seems Mother Nature doesn’t care that it’s been below normal temperatures here in Western Canada, or that Spring never did arrive. She still goes about her business and produces exquisiteness…

Can you tell I adore roses?

Now to my watercolors…

It`s a boy!!! and a girl

Two more faces from my Suzi blu class.
Of course, the boy gave me no end of trouble, being a boy. It was our first assignment with colored pencils. I don`t like colored pencils, which shows. I like them when they`re water-soluble. Which those are. So my next step will be to add water, and paint him.

Then I did a girl, based on a model I adore from one of her students. I thought the woman was stunning, so I was inspired to follow the proportions, see if there was something I could learn there. Drawing with a ruler: I guess that`s the secret of right proportions, the golden mean and all that.

Her mouth is all wrong, completely unreal. But I can see my mistakes, so I guess it means I`m getting there.

I`ve added this person, done this afternoon. It needs more hair. But I think the proportions are starting to happen. Hand eye coordination is starting to happen to let me do what Suzi recommends for ``pretty faces``.