Portraits in Watercolours PART 4: 'En Profil'

 The session of last week, we discussed the next perspective for a portrait - defined by the French term 'en profil'. 

Next to the ones that are derived from the full face logic, there is one rule of thumb for a profile and that is the vertical line you can draw along the start of the ear. It divides the skull in 2 halves that have the same width - measured from the top of the nose to the ear = same length as ear to back of skull. Or just look at the drawing below 😃

  

The theme of the day was 'create your ow version of the (unusual en-profil) portrait of 'Madame X' by John Singer Sargent. And to hget there we did exercises, drawing each others' profiles with one eye closed and without looking at the paper. A great way to draw, after a bit of practise you are almost 'tracing' the face. Enjoy the fabulous and very interesting and different  results:

Anna Karin really liked this method and played with it in true signature style! She also went on with the beautiful poppy (see below).

Martine's version of Madame X. It is such a gorgeous portrait and it makes me happy to look at.

Fantastic version by Laura! so well done - and there is one detail still missing, but she will add that: The letters VOGUE on top - half of them. Such a cool idea!

And who knows what Brenda will come up with! This WIP is very promising...

I also had great fun painting my version, I so like this feisty girl, still thinking of a name. Any suggestions?
And I have been bragging about the portrait of my daughter in that same pose but couldn't find a photo. So here it is! 

And in the meantime

Brenda refined the portrait of Susannah. Sje added shadows and more contrast and made the background darker. Small changes, that make all the difference!

 
And here is Sandra's latest project in the series 'Famous performers'. It is an interesting development that you will love seeing progress...

Anna Karin worked further on the poppy that she started 4 months ago. It wasn't easy to exactly remember how she created the colours, and the paper buckled so she will stretch the paper and come back later.