Mariposa

This watercolor painting is one of a real life person who in many ways looks like my secondlife avatar, Mariposa Pedalo. Each watercolor painting I do is becoming more easy and I am adjusting well to the medium. My wish now is to be able to loosen up and paint more freely.  A difficult step to adjust after having pursued realism in my art.  Portraits are just a matter of reapplying my skills of color etc from my experiences of landscape and seascape paintings.