Water Woman Water Color

This project took me about three weeks of my class. I started by drawing a silhouette of a woman in the water on a thick piece of water color paper. From there I used an Exacto knife to cut out the silhouette of the woman. You have to do this slowly because it is hard to maneuver the Exacto blade around small curves. The edges of the silhouette were very frayed so I used a lighter to burn the edges lightly. At this point I was ready to start painting. I mixed my water colors to make a mix between green and blue. I simply painted circles around the woman with changing colors between green, blue and purple. I then painted a brown line to represent the coast and painted the grass green. It wasn't the actual creation of the piece that made this take three weeks but the mixing of color tones to make the water and grass look more interesting.