Portrait in charcoal and soft pastel

She is not, but I'll let her know!

Surely you mean my legendary wife!

Another pastel attempt, this time with no measuring just straight into the drawing. Despite that I think I got about as much of a likeness as I ever do.

Another portrait, tried a new approach with the soft pastels.

A couple recent portraits, colored pencil and watercolors.

Lovely, such subtlety

Thank you! I love your work.

I'm curious, do you start with the line work or the shading?

"Words of DeSoto" on Facebook is loving this post.

I've been trying out doing portraits in watercolor lately. I'm still lacking the control over the paint that I want but this one is getting there I think.