Doreen is a special model, utterly natural. Today she moved around the room slowly with her lavender piece of organza for the first fifteen minutes. I mostly made a contour drawing as she moved - which was confusing. Doing that got my eye in, though, so when we had ten minute poses, I was primed to look with care.
I have never mixed watercolour with pastel before and today it just sort of happened. For one thing, I forgot the pad I had prepared so ended up doing different things to what I had imagined. I forgot my kitchen roll so every mark needed to work.
Some of the drawings/paintings are on cartridge paper, others are in two of my altered sketchbooks. The tan pages are watercolour ground over book pages. The orangey is a pastel ground. I drew in the wet watercolour with the pastel. It was all fun.
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