**Nataraj watercolour portrait painting**

By @cloudstack12/12/2020hive-156509

Hi watercolour lovers♥️
Painting with the watercolour medium can be both exciting and frustrating at the same time but no artist ever started perfect with any kind of medium.
So here's a nataraj watercolour portrait painting I did through fear of mistakes and anxiety

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I make my sketches with light hues and small brushes (light hues helps me correct errors better) and add darker hues for guidelines.

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Next comes the build of mid-tones and skin tones to add a more realistic feel to the painting.

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Painting the hair is a bit challenging to me but practice and more practice pays off at the end of the day. I'm consoled that at first glance it's easy to tell that, that's a human hair (could have been a cat fur hahahaha😂)

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Before I completed this piece, the perfectionist in me had so many thoughts of what could possibly go wrong but I mean the beauty and value of art is not in it's perfection right? Yeah so I went all in, enjoying every process♥️ that resulted in this satisfying final piece 😃

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📝Putting up a painting on a compatible visual space gives it more aesthetic value in my humble opinion.

Thank you for sharing in my experience on this piece 😘

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