JJ Worden

 

Finished Portrait - Weeks 19 & 20

Welp! It was a week! Firstly, gotta say I loved these two lessons by Sabra (Awlad Issa). Highly accessible, great information, and she pays attention to the viewer (ie letting us know when we need to pay attention or when we can turn on double speed). And even though my final portrait might not seem like I learned anything (spoiler alert), I really did!

I don't know about you but a good portion of my work never gets sold or hung or shown. They simply sit, waiting. And not that they're unsuccessful, though god knows there are a ton of those, too! But more because they've kinda fulfilled their purpose, I don't like them enough to hang it in my house so it needs to be repurposed. Such is the case in this "Tale of a Substrate". 

In my last post I mentioned how I'd been following Dylan Sara's Daily Portrait Practice for more, well, watercolour portrait practice. For the month of April, Dylan had given himself a challenge to create looser, wet-in-wet sketches and that fit in well with my goals as well.