This beautiful woman was a friend who loved masks, dark paintings and repetitive designs in art. She inspired this mixed media piece. I gave her the original as a going away gift. I had a tough time making this drawing slash painting. I used 19 x 24" bristol vellum paper and a dark 6B pencil to start with. My first mistake was using such a dark pencil for the shading. Click this Instagram link to look at the first sketch of this piece: Click Me! I have many more drafts and details of this piece at different stages posted on Instagram . Then I used Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils. The pencils are amazing! If you use them extremely heavy the water makes the color vibrant! I learned that you can also use it on silk. But it is not easy to color such a large space with just pencils. So I used Prismacolor hard pastels to cover the larger spaces and left the pencils for details. I made a happy mistake and painted over the hard pastels with water a...
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