"Loved Ones" in aquarelle watercolours

After 4 weeks of practice we were ready for the real thing - painting the portraits of 'a loved one'!

Below some that are (more or less) finished, others are not yet far enough advanced and I'll show them next time! Now enjoy the different styles - and the love and dedication with which these portraits are created!

 Celina's übercute portrait of her daughter (when she was little). 

She's working on the grown-up version -in a very cool style- hopefully I can show it next week

 Laila's loved one Gijs! He was present and patiently posed for this portrait...

Anna-Karin is working on a mega interesting and intelligent series of portraits based on herself.

This is my (and everybody's) loved one!!

 Christiane's daughter with her truly hearty laugh

 Sylvie started a delicate watercolour of her daughter Clara - also with a hearty laugh

And Liz painted a very special and outspoken portrait of her daughter. Marvellous - and true to her style.

 Beautiful innocent and clever young boy - grandson of Michele

 What a character! This little nephew of Andrée, has such a happy view on life

It is not very modest, bit it's such a well painted portrait, by Sandra. Of me and I love it!

Fabulous Faces in watercolours

 We're doing a portrait workshop with the Aquarellistas. The 'oldie's of this group have done that last year (yawn) (and some of them also the year before) and they don't participate in the 'lesson' - but portraits remain a great subject and the loviest things are being created!

Christiane - daughter

Liz -  sculpture

 Christiane - husband

 Edith - Kevin's girlfriend :°)

 

 Edith - beauty (in progress)

Sandra - intricate (just started)

 Cathie - my baby (almost finished)

Portraits in Aquarelle part I

Laila

In our Watercolour session of last Tuesday we had the first session dedicated to 'portraits'

We started with an exercise in colour and shape: paint your own eye and your own mouth (with a mirror).

A great way to really look at the almond and round shapes, the patterns and highlights in iris and pupil, and of course skin colour... but not yet at proportions and distances...

Celina 

Everyone loved it, despite moans and groans especially about wrinkels... General tip: leave them out or just hint, unless they are part of what you want to express...

Christiane 

And most of us tried several versions. You see some of them above and below  

Andrée (did a lot of them and got better and better!)

Sylvie

Linda (sorry, picture doesn't do justice to the skin colour) also love the profile!

 Marina

 Angelface by Liz

Who else? by Liz

 Edith's tired beauty

Cathie's little angel

Atelier Aquarellista! Open every Tuesday from 2 - 4.30pm in Chateauneuf...

The aquarellistas are back to working hard (and smart), helped by verveine, cookies, music and just a tiny sip of pink champagne! Our theme du jour was 'beaches'! Here are some of the -excellent-  results, and notice how different the subject is represented in the results:

 Carribbean hammock by Rita - our new girl! She has talent that's for sure. 

It will be finished tomorrow - can't wait to see the result!

 Avril started with the 'Transat' and a reflection of the clouds in the sea. 

Though not at all finished, it is already super interesting!

This is such a strong piece - by Sandra. Also a beach, but a completely different take. Love it!

 Brenda started the happy beach chairs with dunes in the background.

Painted in her lively and lovely style - we're looking forward to seeing it finished

This is Christiane's practice watercolour, she will make another one with the same scenery plus 2 kids climbing the fallen palmtree... Great and serious way of working! And very promising already...

 This is Bev's. You may have guessed, because it really is her style. Happy chairs for everyone!!

Tricia hasn't been in France for a while - and came back with a vengeance!!! What a su-perb beach... Note that there is still a lot of masking fluid in this painting, it will look even more interesting when that is rubbed off and replaced with other colours or left white...

Liz works on a painting that is related to the beach - the marina next to it... Still lots of masking on that one, but with these colour combinations not much can go wrong, brilliant!

Superduper soda bottles by Edith (to take with you to the beach?)

 A typical endeavour for Cathie: a lot of delicate robin's eggs in a very fine little basket with loads of detail... Only Cathie dares to start this - and be confident that she'll finish it too!!!