I started a sketch for this last weekend and finally got to finish it today. Yesterday was so much fun. I had the house all to myself and watched a Pirates of the Caribbean marathon and worked on this and another painting.
It feels so good to be painting again! This is done mostly in watercolor, with pencil and colored pencils. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the cheap bristol board paper I bought held up rather well with watercolors.
I really decided to do this painting a few months ago when I saw Jean Cocteau's "La Belle et La Bette". It was a gorgeous movie, with beautiful costumes and scenery. Beauty and the Beast is also my favorite Disney movie, it is actually the first movie I ever saw in theaters.
So, hopefully I will finish the next painting I am working on soon. I am having a lot of trouble with watercolors, it is so much harder to control than oil or acrylic, but I think there is such a beautiful delicate look about watercolors. I hope to improve, I consider this painting as practice.
I think that one day I will do a painting of Beauty and the Beast in oils, and really go for a realistic look.
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