Wet’n’Dry

Materials List

• 1 x sheet white Clairefontaine Pastelmat® (to fit 12 x 16” portrait)

• Faber Castell Albrecht Durer Watercolour Pencils:

– Black
– White
– Caput Mortuum
– Dark Sepia
– Payne’s Grey
– Burnt Ochre
– Dark Indigo
– Cool Grey I
– Cool Grey II
– Prussian Blue
– Warm Grey II
– Warm Grey III
– Terracotta

• Craft knife

• Pencil sharpener

• Water brush (or normal watercolour brush)

• Glassine paper (use this to lean on to prevent smudging when working)

Step One

I took around 200 photos of this dog in a brief photoshoot with a commission client. Sometimes I take several hundred of my subject in the hope that half a dozen will stand out. In this case, there was one head pose that shone out for my client’s portrait, but I wanted to revisit this pose in particular, as it totally captured the spirit