Word play, another fun lesson by Alisa Burke. And so nice to just play around in your sketchbook and enjoying the process. I chose the word DEPTH on a sort of blue ocean tones. We need depth in our thinking, responsiblity, creativity and in our processes. We should not avoid it, or be afraid of it. It makes your life richer when friendships have depth, when you have taken time to think things over. It has worth.
Sometimes I am left with little dots of paint. I use them to make backgrounds in my sketchbook, or as a base for something new.
Here I already knew I wanted to paint some flowers with this combination, so I painted the shapes, and when it was dry I added some coloured pencil strokes.
Another online course by Alisa Burke is called Portrait play. I followed this one some years ago, and now used one of her methods of experimenting with portraits. You look in magazines for faces which appeal to you. Here I liked the colours of her jacket. You glue it in your sketchbook and with paint and markers you make the portrait your own. I added a background, exaggerated the colours of her jacket and used markers for her face.
Up close you see I used different markers and added a white dot in her eyes. I am not completely happy with the end result, but I have made it my own and it is a good practice :).
