This painting has gone down hill very quickly. There are major problems here. Eyes are scary dead looking. Big drawing errors...the right side doesn't work with the left. I lost too much of the collage papers, overall head is too big, nose looks crooked, mouth off center (tried to fix it and created a nasty expression) and the paint quality is pasty looking (this may not show up in the photograph but apparent in person). So here is a learning situation. 1. When working this size, draw the image first on tracing paper and transfer. 2. Use acrylic on this type of collage paper. The watercolor sticks are too flat.
Now, I have to decide what to do. The best thing about this type of disaster is that there is no fear of ruining it, so I feel free to try interesting ideas to rescue the image. Last resort, cover it with gesso. Because this painting has an acrylic base, my first choice is to remove as much of the watercolor paint as possible and see what I have. Then, I could paint over it with acrylic, or add another layer of collage and then paint it. I may have another inspiration depending on what it looks like.
