Highlights are cool and shadows are warm.

This is the best portrait demo I have found on KZfaq. Thank you!

Shelley you are such a fabulous teacher. Please keep making your wonderful vids especially ones tackling difficult subject matter. Thank you for sharing your talent.

I enjoy how you explain everything so thoroughly, leaving nothing for us to guess or to fumble through on our own. You are an awesome instructor!!! Thank you for your willingness to share your talents with all of us. Pam

Thank you Shelley. I hope you know how appreciated these videos are. Can't thank you enough. New Mexico.

Watching the replay , Caldwell Idaho, loved your daughter portrait! Thank you Shelly you do a wonderful job teaching watercolor. ❤

I really enjoy watching you paint! When it’s over, I always say “ I can practice that” !! Thank you for that!!

As a beginner with watercolors (yes, things have gotten serious between us lol), I recently tried Arches and....wow. What a difference! Worth every penny.

Even with a great photo reference you elevate the subject beyond the photo bringing more depth and clarity than could be imagined. It is a joy and privilege to watch you paint.

I love your art and teaching style. Delighted I have found you!

Ha ha! I just enjoyed this again. Thank you for sharing your skills.

Wonderful portrait. I am watching the replay from Florida. 😊

I enjoyed this very much. Thanks!!

Love the you explained Shelley thank you

Wow! I can’t believe I’m just now finding you! You are amazing! You’re such a great teacher. I can’t wait to watch every video. Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us! ❤from Texas!

Thank you! Such an inspiration 😊

Love your lessons

Thank you for the wonderful lesson. Your detailed instruction on this portrait is very helpful.

This is amazing... a future goal for me.... would you please post somewhere the colors you use on the palette? thank you..

Hahaha my big endeavor is to do a collage of small portraits for my hubby of his favorite Sci Fi series cast… and I am a noob artist!

Un grand bravo de France, du Var. J'apprécie votre travail et votre technique.

You are an amazing teacher. Do you usually paint the hair first?

Love this tutorial! Where do you purchase the Biaelk brushes? Ali express has horrible reviews. TY

I would ask for a video showing us the various mounting and framing options for ourselves and for selling or showing watercolor art. I had never heard of varnishing watercolor art before you mentioned it.

Shelley, you’ve just been an incredible mentor! And I’ve only just found you in the last couple of months! Already my washes are smoother and I’ve learned an incredible amount on my toughest challenges in every video of yours I’ve watched. I’m so excited to let you know I’ve just finished a portrait of my new grandson, using what you taught in this video on color and softness and smoothness for facial features. It all worked so much better than my previous portraits, which had some hard edges and granulating smudges and blue and brown shadows. It’s one of my best paintings! I would love to show you my results if there is a way to send you an attachment?

Thanks!

Watching the video and finding it very helpful. I had to laugh (at myself) when you talked about doing a practice portrait first. I am one of those people who has not akways heeded that advice, in watercolors or pastel. My first watercolor portrait was of my friend's infant great granddaughter. Fortunately it turned out. That was quite a few years ago and I am watching your video to help me with a portrait of my daughter's friend and her holding her newborn baby. She is from the mouth down, and6 the baby is from the side against her chest. I am not expecting it to be a masterpiece and i will do it over if necessary, which I probably will have to. I have another painting I want to do of a little boy from the side leaning over ti smell some flowers. The question I have is would I use the same techniques to paint his arms and legs? My jumping into something with both feet hours back to my high school days (I'm 78) when I learned to knit. My first project was an Erin Isle sweater. Nobody told me it was a hard pattern. It turned out very well. LOL -- which has not always been the case. I love your way of teaching and explaining things. Thank you for sharing your time and talent.

Watching the replay. I posted my polar bear on Instagram and tagged you.

What color blue would you recommend generally speaking, for blue eyes?

Hi Shelly, your daughter is beautiful, like her mama. I’m just wondering, did you draw the image freehand or do you trace over your printout of the reference photo? I know there is no or right or wrong way. I’m just interested really. I would love to have a go myself. Could be an interesting result! 😂. But I figure you won’t improve if you don’t have a go.