To make an
amazing portrait of your friends and family or may be beloved yourself
is not that difficult as you may imagine. You don’t even need to be an artist, all you need is a
printer, a piece of paper and watercolors. In this post we are going to share
how we did it during our workshop in MDC Blok!
1) Take a
nice portrait picture or choose one. Change the colors into black and white in
any program, save and print it on the paper of A4 format.
2) Precisely
cut the face of the person out of the background paper.
3) Take a
piece of paper that is bigger than the cut out portrait (it’s better to use one
for watercolors or another paper with slightly rough surface. Define the space
on paper where you want the photo to be and accurately outline it.
4) Put the
portrait out, now is the time to work on the background. With a wet clean brush
cover the surface with water. Try not to touch the outlined space for the face.
5) Pick your
favorite colors and paint the background in free order, mixing them where
possible. Don’t follow any strict rules, just use your imagination: paint colorful blurs or something
concrete, it is up to you. Remember that after drying the brightness of the
colors will be weaker, it will fade a bit – this is how watercolors usually
work. So, put more colors in advance. To avoid an ocean on the paper, take
extra water with crumpled piece of soft paper. It can make an extra pattern.
6) Let the
paper dry and stick the face with a glue. Creative portrait is ready!
Look at our MDC gang! We are awesome, aren’t
we?
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