---- Hello, how are you? I was scrolling through my gallery and saw that I had taken a photo of them a month ago. I decided to paint my dad and my brother's puppy named Thor. This is my second time painting a watercolor portrait using the watercolor I bought a year ago. -----

Materials I Used:

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300 gsm watercolor paper
Watercolor paint
2 pallete
Watercolor Brush
Water Bottle Spray

2 Water Bottle
Tape
Mechanical Pencil 2b
Eraser
Tissue Paper

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Let's Paint!

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To stop paper from moving when I paint, I tape each side of it, but I get lazy, so I just did the top and bottom parts. And one of the reasons why I tape each side, that there is a tendency for the paper to bulge when overused with water. -----

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Using this water spray, I condition the watercolor paint to make painting easier, and the paint is more vibrant. -----

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I premixed some of the colors I needed, like the skin tone. -----

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For the first layer of paint, I usually use an orange-red tone. ----

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Next is I layered it with yellow ochre, and while the skin was still drying, I started to add a layer of watercolor paint on the hair. I use black and blue. -----

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For this part, I layered again the skin with skin tone watercolor I premixed earlier, and I started to add more layers to the other part. -----

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For this part, I started to add darker shadows and layers to the portraits. -----

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Just like I did earlier, if the part is still wet, I will layer the part that is completely dry already, and for the part, I will start to add detail like the hair and fur. -----

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For the final layer, I intensified the part that needed to darken the shadows. And finalize the details too. -----

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After that, I use this white pen to add a highlight to the portrait. -----

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After that, to add more depth to the portrait, I layer the background with blue just to make the portrait doesn't look like flat. ----- ![24.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/leannwithdoublen/EowG5AkFpgfzoZn4u5oyqoZ48mVbh7vYth8s86JCiD124fdevZQMYRqkVePXevDBLyk.JPG) ----

Thank you for visiting. See you on my next blog. :D Please take care of your mental health as well. I hope you are okay today :))

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