Portrait Painting in Watercolor

Susan Harrison-Tustain recently produced this excellent watercolor portrait lesson in a two-disc DVD set.

On disc number 1, Susan goes through all the steps in great detail showing us what it takes to create a successful portrait painting in watercolor. For beginners, she has included everything needed to get started; stretching the watercolor paper, all materials required, how to tackle backgrounds, painting realistic skin tones and much more. This disc also contains a beautiful gallery of Susan's artwork which cannot fail to inspire you.

Disc 2 gets into painting hair, fabric and more on skin tones. Then it describes how to fine tune a painting to bring it to life.

Susan's style of watercolor has been called 'naturalistic realism'. In fact the style of painting she teaches goes beyond realism. She teaches us how to capture the essence of the sitter in her portrait paintings, whether painted from life or photographs.

In this video clip below, taken from the 'Watercolor Portrait Workshop' DVD, you can see the painting come to life in just half a minute.