I have found another way to paint watercolors and it is process where I build a watercolor painting with casein paints.

In the example of the portrait painting of Curtis. I started a sketch with a graphite pencil. Using a number 2B pencil I was able to get the proportions and composition then switching to a 2H pencil I added detail to the eyes, ears and mouth. The 2H pencil detail was light, dark enough to see yet easy to erase. The same thing with the 2B pencil that I initially used to sketch the likeness, it was heavy and also lightly executed, easy to erase. Then after a critical analysis of the drawing’s values, composition and likeness of Curtis, I further made adjustments by erasing with a kneaded eraser and drawing the needed development.

With watercolors I put down light bright colors in loose washes to show the highlighted skin tones colors and then added darker skin tone washes for the shadowed areas. I purposefully let the paper show through in areas that needed to be white. I’ll later develop these void shapes into other parts of the  face. As the washes dried I shaped areas of eyes, nose and mouth with bright values of watercolor.

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