Watercolor Portrait Of An Old Guy With A Ponytail

This was a project I worked on for about a week, off and on. I know some people can create a masterpiece in a day or less but I just don't know how they do it. I find that I need to study a picture for a while, sketch it a few times to work things out and then paint in stages with constant revision and critique along the way.   I wonder if I get done or just get tired of the project.

I liked his face it had deep complicated shadows, contours, texture, and wrinkles so it was a joy to make something out of it.  I wanted to make it more ethereal so that you needed to look at it for a moment before you realized it was a face but I got involved with the image and kept adding detail.

Watercolor Portrait of Old Guy With a Ponytail.

I used the brush very wet and kept splashing color into puddles of color sometimes letting it dry and then splashing fresh color on top. I regretted not leaving more of the paper empty on the far left side of the face and a few other random places.

I think I made it too representational and should have kept it more impressionistic especially with the shadow being so dramatic.  It is not my goal to make a super-realistic picture but to try to find something spiritual and give that voice.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my work. Thanks for taking the time to look.  
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