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Little Girl Tutorial - Advanced (Patreon)

Published:
2022-09-27 20:56:31
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2022-09-28 03:59:30
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Hi patrons,

Here is the Little Girl tutorial.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I consider myself a beginner when it comes to painting portraits and the figure but I am determined to learn more and improve. I haven't painted many so my experience is limited. This tutorial is an example of how I am trying to acquire more skill. I will continue to paint portraits when I have time and I will share my progress with you. To free myself from making choices I used a limited palette of only three colours and this allowed me to concentrate on shape and tone. I hope it helps you too.

All of the files you need to complete the painting are attached below my message here. I've included plenty of progress photos of my painting to help you. 

The reference photo was taken by Susie Ho and I downloaded it from Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/hCGxE6Hi9o4

I hope you enjoy it.

Louise

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My tutorials are designed to help you on your creative journey. Any painting you create from a tutorial where I use my own reference photo is for personal use only. They can't be sold or entered into an art competition. I write on the Supplies Lists where the photos come from.

Permission is not given to paint any of my earlier paintings that are not tutorials because some of them are licensed. Also, a few of my earlier paintings were painted from photographs where I sought the permission of the photographer. The photographer gave me permission to use it, not others.

If I do a tutorial where I use another photographer's photo (eg from Pixabay or Unsplash) that is available for anyone throughout the world to download (copyright free) and use I’m happy for you to sell the paintings you create from the tutorial. I know art supplies are expensive, so it's good to be able to recoup the costs of supplies.

If I do a tutorial and I use a photo that I have paid for and downloaded from the website Wildlife Reference Photos in order for you to sell the painting you create from the tutorial you need to purchase and download the photograph yourself. This is in accordance with the Terms and Services of the Wildlife Reference Photowebsite.

If you share a finished painting on social media I would really appreciate it if you could link back to my account (be it on Facebook, YouTube or Instagram) and mention that you painted it in one of my tutorials. @louisedemasi

Thank you!

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Little Girl Portrait for Patreon

Louise De Masi©

Comments

MARIANNE DANHOF

It seems as if the link with the photo is no longer functioning? I searched on unsplash, but cannot find it.

MARIANNE DANHOF

Yeahhhh it is working! Thanks Louise. No idea what went wrong.

Elizabeth Y Moore

Thank you Louise! This is amazing, please do more portraits and share with us. You are an excellent teacher and describe your paintings with such clarity. You are so helpful to us struggling artists. I can’t wait to begin this tutorial.

Marie

I love this tutorial! Thank you!

Nettie Moss

Just re-watched this as I'm about to finish what I started in March then abandoned to do baby knitting and sewing! Baby hasn't arrived yet - but won't be long as 'due date' was last Thursday - can't wait, shall let you know Louise. I must say I am desperate to get back to painting and feel a bit like a beginner again, however I shall watch more of your tutorials which will set me up ;-)

Louise De Masi

Hi Nettie, I hope bub comes soon! I'm excited for you. 🥰

Tanja Garssen

Wow you did a great job. I hope there are coming more portraits. I really love to do portraits. 👍🍀🙏🥰

Louise De Masi

Thank you Tanja. I hope to add another portrait tutorial this year. I also want to do some study tutorials where we focus on individual facial parts - noses, ears, mouth etc.

Kirstin Santos

Louise, I am a new student as of September 1, and I look forward to a day when I feel confident to attempt this beautiful portrait. Your work is meticulous in its simplicity.

Basia

Delighted to see this video, you have painted a beautiful portrait ! I also want to learn more about portraiture in watercolour, the video will no doubt be massive challenge for me (!), but I can't wait to give it a try !

Kirstin Santos

I just completed “Harvest Mice”…made some mistakes and felt pleased with some areas. I learned a lot! One major learning is to practice on the paper you’re working on. I practiced the whiskers on cheap grocery list paper and thought I had it down. The watercolor paper required adjustments with everything. It was a hard lesson, but one I won’t forget.

Leah

You have captured an adorable child delicate and beautiful 🥰. I love the limited colour palette for portraits, coming from a sketching background. Your openess about still learning inspires confidence, in that while we try something new, our skills will continue to change and improve💢. I have a Q about the larger brush size please. If I were to try something like this on an A4 size instead instead of A3, would you still recommend the size #7 for the larger size? I'm buying a new larger kolinsky brush today and my intention is to stay within A5 or A4 watercolour pads. Thankyou⚘️

Louise De Masi

Hi Leah, thank you! I would drop a few brush sizes I think if you're painting on smaller paper. Maybe try a #5 instead of the #7 and see how you feel with that.

Leah

Thankyou kindly.

Bonnie Williams

I'm only 30 minutes in and the process is so fascinating to me. I think I'm still learning just how much the paints dry lighter and so when you add those darker colors as highlights I'm thinking it's too much and then it looks perfect when it's dry! Am learning so much from you -- thank you for all your meticulous work and voice overs!

Nette Cheu

Thank you, Louise! This is something I've always wanted to try! I noticed that the W&N Burnt Sienna on the list is PR101. Does it matter if the DS Burnt Sienna I have is PBr7? Mine seems a bit lighter. Should I use DS Transparent Red Oxide instead? It's PR101.

Louise De Masi

My pleasure Nette. It will look a bit different to mine if you use DS Burnt Sienna. Try mixing both the Burnt Sienna and the Transparent Red Oxide with Permanent Rose and see what colour mixture you prefer.

Nette Cheu

Thanks, I'll try that. It wouldn't matter to me ordinarily, but mixing skin tones scares me!

Belinda Hay

Great tutorial Louise. I can wait to try this one. Thankyou.

Adriana Mendez

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous Louise! It does not look like a 'beginners' painting to me - portrait or not. Will give it a go when I feel more confident in painting with watercolours

Louise De Masi

Thanks very much Adriana. It's not easy but I'm determined to improve.

Nettie Moss

This is fascinating to watch Louise! I was gulping at the dark colours going on then breathed a sigh of relief when they softened and were lighter: that's your experience of really knowing and trusting your paints, hopefully one day I will too. It's a beautiful tutorial and I shall definitely give it a go. Thank you!

Carol Crawford Barfield

Thank you, Louise. This is a skill I very much want to learn. Please tell me the brand name of the palette you used in this tutorial.

Louise De Masi

Thanks so much Nettie. I hope you have some success with it.

Khushnam Patel

Thank you Louise, this is a beautiful tutorial and I am all set to give it a go. I have been doing a lot of oil portraits so this will be my first WC. My question being , you have painted a lot of the face on dry paper and then smoothened it off. I am not great with smoothening the edges. 9/10 I make a mess, so is it alright to put in some water on the surface so that the paint gives me soft edges?

Louise De Masi

Hi Khushnam, thank you! Yes absolutely. If you find it easier work on the wet paper. It might help you when you do that to make the paint a little thicker so it doesn't spread too far.

Judy Breedlove

Wonderful tutorial. Painted like a master. Thank you for posting this.

Jamie Balmelli

So thankful to be one of your students Louise. Thank you for all of your hard work. I hope to see more portraits from you. I also have a desire to learn how to paint them.

Amy Rosenstein

This one was hard but I gave it a go. It’s rewarding to push beyond the comfort zone. Thanks for posting!

Nettie Moss

Louise - I have spent a long time today trying to mix colours for portraits . . try as I may, using the 3 colours you use here, which I have exactly the same, brand etc - and I cannot get a light shade as you do . . . I have tried every which way I can think of but all mixes come out too dark - what would say is the ratio of water to the ratio of paints to arrive at that first wash? If I can just get to that then I can manage the shadows I'm sure! I have also tried other mixes such as yellows (transparents all) reds. pinks, blues, paynes grey and even used quin gold as I read somewhere - no luck. The only way I can get a very pale wash is with quin red and yellow aureolin. Please help!!! thanks ;-)

Louise De Masi

Hi Nettie, I used a wet brush to pick the paint up and I mixed the paint together with out added water first. Then before I painted it onto the paper for the first wash I mixed water with it. I don't know what the ratio would be because I do it without thinking about it. If I was to paint the same painting again my colour would vary slightly no doubt. If your colour is too dark mix more water with it. Remember that it will dry much lighter. Try it out on another piece of paper- wet it first before you put the paint on and then let it dry and see what you think. The actual hue is not that importnant. It doesn't have to be the same as mine. The tonal value is what is important. If yours turns out slightly darker than the first wash on mine then make your shadows that you paint over the top slightly darker than mine too to compensate for that.

Andrea Paulis

Thank you Louise. As always I come away from one of your tutorials feeling privileged just to watch you work. This was exceptional.

Vee

What a beautiful, beautiful painting! WAAAAAY above me, but wow, it is so stunning. Maybe one day I will be able to try something like this, but in the meantime I am just enjoying. Thank you dear Louise!

Louise De Masi

Thank you very much Vee. Even if you don't paint it just watching the tutorial helps you learn. 💕

Bridgette Thiesen

thanks for the tutorial. you are a very detailed and clear in your teaching. Beautiful work!!

Nettie Moss

I'm in the throes of doing this tutorial Louise: I take ages off and on as I like to do some work then I will leave it where I can see it and consider my next moves . . it's quite time consuming but a process that seems to work for me. I wanted to ask you - on the ref' photo there is a luminous kind of 'aura' around the top of head and I would like to do that but not sure how: any suggestions? It must be sunlight but isn't yellow ... I wondered if a light wash of silver paint may do it .. or silver mixed with some other shade. Did you notice that what looks like reflection of light in the hair is actually a kind of hairslide she has on with little clips?! I decided not to do that! I'm making a few small changes as I usually do but hope you'll approve!

Louise De Masi

Hi Nettie, if I wanted to paint the lightness at the top of her head I'd probably mask some of it off with masking fluid and I'd paint a background colour over it. It might need a pale wash of grey over the top of the area that had masking fluid on it to push it back a little because the white of the paper might be too stark. I didn't notice a hair slide in her hair.

Nettie Moss

Thanks Louise - lying in bed I suddenly thought of doing a background and leaving some white - your idea should work - thanks. Due to my lack of sight in left eye I always enlarge the ref photos - that's when I noticed the hairslide: what looks like light on the hair is little parts of it. I also noticed the little ring she has in the nose: she certainly has a lot of adornments for a small child!