A Colorful Portrait: I Love Lavender!

Here’s a portrait from 2021 that I haven’t posted.

I can’t remember what the blog topic I wanted to address with it was.

I look at it now and totally fall in love with the hair and the beard again. I love how it seems to be moving up and around of its own accord.

If you were sitting with this person you would be rapt every time he said something because there would be so much movement. And you would want to sketch it all.

Yes there is green in that red-blond-brown hair. 

But most of all there is lavender. I love lavender.

Did you notice that this is really a secondary triad using an orange and green and purple?

Who knew I loved green so much?

Maybe it’s part of the cost of loving lavender?

Here is a detail showing some of the strokes, wet and dry brush, on drawing paper—a lovely drawing paper from Strathmore, but still just a drawing paper that didn’t wake up on this morning and expect someone to douse it with wet media.

I used an acrylic marker on the background.

Some textures are only possible in a painting if you paint on something unsuitable.

That’s sort of the fun of painting isn’t it?!

Just a quick word about my Patreon site:

On Patreon I have a subscription blog where I post about painting and creativity.

The things I post on Patreon don’t get posted elsewhere yet—i.e., in the 3 years I’ve been writing that blog I think I’ve only posted one thing on RozWoundUp that was on Patreon—I promised subscribers I wouldn’t post elsewhere for 6 months from the original post date and I’ve gone way over that and created a trove of demos and information only available there.

If you aren’t subscribing to my Patreon/RozInterim site you’re missing out on real time videos, discussions of art techniques and media and tools, thoughts on how to do self-evaluations, set goals, get rid of your internal critic, how to set up a project that will be doable and push your skills forward at the same time, exercises to push your fundational art skills, etc.

When you join my Patreon site you immediately get access to every post on the site for your tier level of subscription.

There are only 2 tiers.

It goes like this:

Tier 2 gets access to all realtime videos and most creativity posts.

Tier 3 gets access to EVERYTHING which include  tapes of the live monthly webinars and access to our private Facebook group where you can post your work and discuss it. This group also receives access to additional creativity posts not available to the Tier 2 subscribers because sometimes I am working with a topic I have a lot to say about.

Your access to everything at your tier level lasts as long as you subscribe.

The basic point is there is already so much stuff on that blog that you can watch and learn from that you don’t have to wait month to month for new stuff to be posted. 

And of course you can ask me questions.

Such a deal.

Take a look at the sidebar on the right for some of the past topics I’ve covered in my demos.

I encourage you to check it out at this link.