Last night we went to a birthday party for a friend...the only place we cold find to sit was near where the children were playing, so of course I grabbed my journal for some quick sketching! They were moving constantly.
This is on tan paper...
You can tell there was no time for anything more than a suggestion of detail...and a few of the sketches were just a line or two as the girls kept moving, hopping up, leaving, coming back, getting a new toy, changing places...
This morning I decided to add some gouache to the most promising one, of young Annabelle at play. I added the first layers with flat, simple colors.
I wanted more detail than I was getting with the waterbrush, so I got out my colored pencils and sharpened them, strengthening values and colors as I went along...
Here's how she turned out when I finished. I may add more to the page, I may not...they DO evolve...
