Patsy Cline

As part of my (not so successful) #100 day project this year I did a portrait of one of my favorite country singers Patsy Cline. Here’s a little step by step of the watercolor portrait.

Reference photo. This was black and white but I had seen a photo somewhere of her wearing a red shirt so I went for that for the portrait.

Rough pencil sketch. The way most of my portraits start.

First layer of paint. I mainly used a slanted brush for this as I love the chiseled look of the strokes.  

Finished portrait. Scanned and cleaned up in Photoshop.

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