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I want to get more recognizable images in the challenge that someone gave me to “paint emotion”. How do peoples’ facial features change with different emotions? Recognize that can be culture dependent. There are lots of examples to look at and build upon.
Fear!!!
Or surprise.
Or Worry.
Determination
Sometimes a fast simple sketch is revealing.
And then I played—this is on plastic yupo paper substitute and more a caricature and expressive.
Watercolour. 12×8. $100
I started this as an exercise in moving paint around with a straw. That’s where the blobs came from. Then they reminded me of brain pictures. So I thought of connecting them to faces. I’m fascinated by connection, or disconnection.
Here I wanted to exaggerate the features. The nose is too small which gives it a caricature look. Reaction?
Feedback anyone? I am trying to do a three quarter view which is harder than straight on. He has a degree of intensity I like. This is mostly burnt sienna and ultramarine blue with a few dabs of other colours only.
Inspired by the look on the face of a caregiver.
Watercolour. 12×8. Mounted on board.
Watercolour. 12×18.
Watercolour 24×18. Mounted on canvas.
Many traders were junior and lost their firm billions in the financial crisis. Some were charged with fraud, breach of trust, manipulating markets, or misleading clients. Some went to prison.
24×36 watercolour collage.