Portraits in Watercolours PART 5: More 'En Profil'

Last session we continued with the 'en Profil' Portrait project. We worked mainly on 'Our own version' of that fabulous painting by John Singer Sargent, 'Madame X'

 
The original portrait of Mme X by John Singer Sargent

 
Bev created such a good version (Still WIP!), that at first sight doesn't look very different from the original. But do you notice the shoulder strap? (Originally the actual painting was like that too, but at the time it was 'censured', as too sexy. )


Here's the version by Brenda, Mme X in a stunning purple dress!

 

And Roxane's varietion wears a red dress - and a couple of profiles (or ghosts) in the background!

Corinne painted just the profile and she did that in around half an hour, that woman is so fast! Luckily there was another challenge for her (see below)


As there were not so many people who needed my attention, I painted a modern version of Mme X with a crew cut and colourful earrings 😊

 

And next to that

Corinne painted a 3/4 portrait, of Ian McKellen (or Gandalf) Beautiful light and shadows and good work on the bags under his eyes (part of next week's challenges...)

These two happy beautiful faces are WIP by Roxane. She decided to finish them in pencil. I am looking forward to the result (in 2 weeks)

Lastly, the poppies by Anna Karin are almost done now. They are so subtle and there is so much mysterious nature, it is amazing.