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”She Blooms in ink – Week 6” with Tamara Laporte

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Hello fabulous creative friend!

Welcome to week 6 on “She Blooms in Ink”!

This week we are going to look at how to create aportrait in a high contrast and less line work whilecontinuing to work on adding vibrant, colourfulforals and expressive doodles, shapes, colours andwords in our journals (or on your pages!)

Hope you have a great time this week! Love, Tam



Supplies used this sessionPlease note, below are the supplies I used, but you can substitute the supplies if and where needed if you don't have what I've used.

An art journal with hotpressed watercolour paper (140lbs) or single sheets. The journal I use is a Roberson Watercolour Sketchbook – green bind hotpressed paper, but any other good quality brand is also fne.

Graphite pencil (I like the graphgear 1000 by pentel 2b in lead, 0.9 width, but any graphite

pencil will do. Ecoline Inks Tombow Marker (or JD Marker) Black India Ink (apply with fne

watercolour brush) Watercolour crayons Neocolor II JD Mermaid Marker (purple) (or

Tombow) Black India Ink White Acrylics Inks



Drawing a Side Profle Portrait

Quick Guide - I tend to start an angled face verysimilarly to a front facing portrait!

Here is a quick guide:

1. Start with an oval shape, sketch this in lightly, don'tpress your pencil down too hard, you'll want to erasequite a few of your lines later. 2. Draw a vertical line 3/4s or 1/3s of the way into theoval (use this to guide you where to place the nose).3. Draw a horizontal line through the middle of theoval (this is where you will place your eyes) 4. Draw another horizontal line through the middleof the bottom part of the oval (this is approx wherethe bottom of the nose will go) 5. And again, draw another horizontal line through the bottom-bottom part of the oval (this is roughly where the mouth will end up). 6. Allow for the space of one full eye between the two eyes. 7. There tends to be a 'dip' on the right side of the face and all the facial features on that side of the face tend to have the right side of them 'disappear from view' so they tend to end up being 'rounded off' or shorter.



Obviously, many faces have all sorts of different dimensions, depending on ethnicity and simply differences in shape, so you can play with the above guidelines. I notice for myself that my noses actually end up lower than mid-way the second half and often my eyes end up closer to the edge of the face than might be realistic. Depending on your style and preferences, the mouth/ eye/ nose dimensions and ratios can be very different, but the above guidelines are based on the more 'realistic' type of faces. Try them out and then break 'the rules'. This will help you develop your own style!

The angled portrait is somewhat different thisweek, it has an additional angle in that we'relooking at this face from slightly above too.Because of this angle, her left eye looksdifferent from a straight forward facing angledportrait.

Note how the bottom part of the eye issomewhat 'bulged out', it's like we are gettinga look into the eye from above left.



Hand & EarFor this portrait I also exposed the ear and added the suggestion of a hand that her chin is leaning on.



Steps to the Hand & Arm



Shading & Painting the Face in high contrast and no pen line work

For this portrait my aim was to go for an even higher contrast than we did in week 4, work in large 'patchy/ painterly' strokes and avoid using markers to create detail. Instead I usedwatercolour brushes with India inks for any 'lines' I wanted to make, which creates a very different effect from doing line work with posca pens.

I worked pretty much in limited colours again too, I used:

• a light brown/ orange in the ecoline inks• a purple/ indigo in JD marker• a turquoise/ in the crayon series• deep pink in tombows/ ecoline• black in India inks

For this technique we apply the inks in a 'patch like' manner. I don't do as much blending to create smooth shading, instead I allow patches of ink blobs (ha) to dry in place. This achieves a looser effect.

I chose for the light to come from the left and intensifed the contrast of shading by using purple and black in the darker areas. I also used intenser colours (such as an intense pink on her cheek) to achieve are more striking contrast & 'pop'.



Work with white space to deepen contrast/ drama

For this type of portrait I'm trying to achieve a dramatic sense of shading by deepening the contrast. I leave the areas where I would usually apply highlights, white and use black/indigo/ dark purple for the darkest areas.



This week's colour schemeAs mentioned above, my limited palette colour choices are:

• a light brown/ orange in the ecoline inks• a purple/ indigo in JD marker• a turquoise/ in the crayon series• deep pink in tombows/ ecoline• black in India inks

You can choose different colours for this exercise, but try to stick with no more than approximately 4.

Working on Your 2 Page SpreadWhile working on both spreads, continue to allow yourself to respond intuitively to the pages and let your 'gut' lead you to where you want to work and add the next batch of colour, mark, doodle or shape. To create balance and harmony in your spread; take colours that you use on the one page into the other page as well.

While working this way, try to tune into your body, feelings and emotions, work meditatively, if possible. Ask yourself 'what you're needing' in this moment and consider adding words, quotes, poetry, lyrics to the spread that may have an affrming, expressive or positive effect on you. I sometimes also add illegible scribbly writing that expresses 'where I'm at in that moment'.



Remember that it can be really healing to add affrmations such as:

I am good enoughI am lovedI am worthy

Or lyrics, quotes or poetry that inspire me like:

“The wound is the place where thelight enters you.”

“Don't you know yet? It is your light,that lights the world”



Adding Details & Line Work + HairFor this spread I added details and line work to the spread with a black India ink and an aquabrush/ small watercolour brush. These types of marks create a very different effect from the pen lines. You won't be able to achieve the fne detailed marks and lines but it creates a different looser/ expressive effect that I love too!



Another fun technique I used for this spread was a 'messy splashy inky drippy' method of creating the 'hair' area:



And here is the fnal spread with some detail shots too:



Thanks for being here and trying out my suggestions. :) I hope you had a great time creating your

High Contrast Portrait - She Blooms spread!

I appreciate you!

Tamxoox


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