Emerald Enchantress

It's been a week of constant practice, mostly full pencil drawings and messy sketches. But I decided to break away from that to make a complete painting I've had in mind for days now. Leaves, gems, flowers, green is such a beautiful colour and its difficult not to love it.

I started with a simple clean sketch and chosing different shades of green to work with for leaves, clothing and every other aspect of the painting. I laid the flat colours, painted facial features and added little darker shadows on her hair.

The second stage of the work was basically rendering everything I painted and bringing the whole work to life. Adding highlights and shadows in different areas of her skin, clothes, hair, flowers and jewellery. I added a sharp lighting to her upper hands then painted more leaves and flowers also. I've been painting loose braids for sometime and loving the outcome, I intend to do a head full of braids soon, let's see how that goes. I added her earrings and made few adjustments and that's all.

I think this colour pallete is really beautiful and blended perfectly, even more than I expected....