Mushroom women - "Fungirls" series - Watercolour, pen and pencil

 The "FunGirls"

Moving forward with the "fungirls" I decided that colour was something I wanted to add, but I didn't want to make the colours too bright because I wanted to make the figures still seem whimsical and fantasy-esque.

This lead me to using watercolour to keep a washed out effect as well as then defining key details using both fine liner pens and darkening certain areas with pencil. I did this to create more shadow and make them seem more real on the page.

The made me feel a lot happier to look at, the colours added a level of happiness to the figures and made them seem more alive, rather than something that haunted my dreams. 

I tried to use reference imagery from real mushrooms that exist in the world and my own photography to create a further link between myself and them. These have become a mild obsession of mine through my art and I really want to now experiment with them in more abstract areas to see their visual interaction and create textural difference.









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