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Portrait Swap – Ujwala in Watercolor

Ujwala, Watercolor

Watercolor in large Moleskine watercolor sketchbook from color photo
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Ujwala, Monochrome

Watercolor (Ultramarine Blue & Indigo) in large Moleskine watercolor sketchbook from black & white photo
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Forgive me Ujwala; I fear I haven’t done you justice but I thoroughly enjoyed painting your beautiful and expressive face. Thank you for allowing me to draw and paint you.

Update: Casey just posted her drawing of Ujwala too. Check it out here.

Quite awhile ago my friend and fellow art blogger Ujwala in Bangladesh invited me to do a portrait swap with her to be posted on Illustrator Rama Hughes‘ Portrait Party blog but I got sidetracked. She reminded me again recently when I was commenting on the wonderful series of portraits she’s been working on. The Portrait Party blog is really fun. It’s all drawings, paintings, and cartoons done by pairs of artists of each other. Rama recently posted pictures my friend Judith and I did of each other and when Ujwala finishes mine we’ll send them to him. If you want join the portrait party, just follow the instructions on his blog.

When I agreed (again) to do the portrait swap (which just means I paint you and you paint me), she promptly emailed me two great photos. It took me another few weeks to get around to sending her photos. I took pictures of myself at midnight in my old plaid flannel pajamas, holding the camera at arms length under bright light in the studio. The resulting photos showed every wrinkle and magnified my nose since I was holding the camera so close. I decided to forget about vanity and just send her the photos so we could get started.

8 replies on “Portrait Swap – Ujwala in Watercolor”

They’re lovely Jana. Thank you very much. I cant believe you attempted both! Casey has made one of me too and posted it to her blog. Not having made any as yet, i’m beginning to feel the heat 😀 I hope to have something to show both of you soooooon.

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These are FABULOUS!!! Ujwala’ s has such glorious light and color in the face and she’s captured your expression of delight and giggliness so perfectly! And yours is so beautiful, so warm somehow, even though you’ve used all blues. The shapes you’ve painted are so fluid and lovely. I’m very impressed with both!

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Whoops!! These are both BY you, Jana! (Note that this is 5:30ish am where I live. Shouldn’t comment on blogs without drinking lots of coffee first ;D.) Wow, I’m even more blown away that you could do two such different portraits of the same person from photos! Your use of watercolor in the first one is pure genius.

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