Process: Party Punx Watercolor Word Search Portraits

On Saturday, I continued my watercolor word search portraits at the Party Punx event, “The Big Top“, at The Airliner Nightclub in Los Angeles.  The process is getting increasingly streamlined the more I practice.  I tend to complicate things, especially when it comes to art decisions.  I’ll take you through it (with pictures!)

The first step: LOOK at the word search and write down the first three words you find in my notebook.

 

Second, I take a reference shot.  With blinding light at this event.  Sorry. 🙂

Third, I begin with pen line drawings.  I’ve been starting with an eye and moving out from there.  I add watercolor after.  Once it dries, I add more pen for contrast and definition.

Watercolor introduces a lot of different factors to consider and control or roll with.  I’ve mostly focused on creating portraits that resemble the photograph, literally.  I’m interested in moving toward the abstract.

Step 4: I scan the images and add them to their predecessors and post them here.  [That’s like three things in one step, but yeah it’s messy, and consolidation is my attempt to simplify.]

 

I have a solo show coming up in Lil Tokyo at Epodz.  I’d like to put the portraits together side by side.  

A GIF of the PartyPunx paintings:

This GIF has all of the watercolor word search portraits to date, save the above

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