Are You Kiddin Me, Ruthy?

 

This granny portrait is from a mixed media tutorial by Karen Campbell for Awesome Art School. The lesson was meant to be collage. But not being into collage, I copied the line drawing and made it my one own. I drew this granny with a Graphgear 1000 Pentel Pencil in  my Canson watercolor sketch book. She is outlined in Micron Pen. I used Jane Davenport and Prima watercolors and a small amount of Arteza and Holbein Artists' Gouache to paint her hair and the dotted shirt. 

Before I had finished with her shirt and sweater, I showed the portrait to my husband. As soon as he saw her, he said, "she looks like your mother!" As I painted she began to show up as my mother Ruthy! It wasn't my intention, but as she did, I painted a sweater and shirt, that she might have worn.

This was such a fun piece to work on!

Challenges: 

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2026/07/july-2026-anything-goes-w-optional.html 

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2026/07/challenge-202607-anything-goes-wopt.html 

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2026/07/challenge-326.html 

https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2026/07/crafty-catz-challenge-717-anything-goes.html 

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/06/classic-design-challenge-06-2026-junjul.html