My adorable niece Cassie
This is a color study that uses an analogous color scheme (colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel) of green, turquoise and primary blue. It was done by posterizing a photo in PhotoShop, printing out the line only version on Bristol paper and filling in the values with gouache. Gouache is a new medium for me, but I’m starting to like it even though it can be a bit temperamental. This was fun to do and a good way to study color that goes beyond making charts and scales, which can get quite repetitive.
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My apologies for being way behind on my blog reading. I’ve been busy with assignments, but look forward to catching up with everyone!
Apple N Pear 
Cassie is blessed with such an artistic aunt.
Hehe – Cassie may or may not agree ;p
Painting in the shapes is the easy part, finding a good portrait reference the hard part so she made my job easy.
She *is* a cutie! What a cool technique for making homemade ‘paint by numbers’ to test color schemes, too!!
I agree it’s a great way to test color schemes and anyone can do it. I’m an Andy Warhol fan so the posterizing effect we see here appeals to me, but after working on a more complex portrait assignment (which I’ll probably post later), this paint by numbers approach is becoming so tedious!