Watercolor portrait of a boy from photo

Watercolor demo by Yong Chen. I wanted to demonstrate a different process of painting a portrait from photograph. In this 30 minute portrait painting, I started with a big wash with an 1-inch flat hake brush onto almost everywhere except the light areas in the eyes and the ear. Having a wet-paint surface provides the playground to make some development, the first thing is that you can use lifting-off technique to take some color to make the soft-light areas, and secondly you can add dark