The Joy of a Child
Guess whose created an Instagram account?! THIS GIRL! Go check it out and follow ! I've been really, really wanting to make an Instagram account for my art for the longest time and finally bit the bullet a week ago and made my first post! The Joy of a Child was my first ever serious watercolor portrait. Definitely not what I was going for whatsoever though. I think this little girl ended up looking older than she was and in the picture reference. I can't pinpoint where she seems to be from, she seems to be South Asian in the photo, but ended up looking more African in my painting. It's just how I sloppily sketched it out first though. I was also painting MUCH smaller than I normally do. My water control was out of wack because I wasn't used to not being able to really show fine details because it's so small. I was trying to fit in the nitty-grittys and it didn't work out so well. Away from the photo reference, it looks good. The colors blended prett
