In the end I settled on using to image to practice my watercolor skills. I redrew the image on a larger piece of bristol board paper and used pen and ink to go over the pencil lines. After that was good and dry, I applied some frisket spots to the background so that the spots would remain white throughout the painting process.
I then started adding in the base colors with light washes of blue for the background and purple for the bottom dragon as seen in the following pictures.
I then let the painting sit for several months as I moved between other projects so when I came back around to finishing it, I forgot to keep up with taking progress shot photos.
I added a few more layers of watercolor to build some texture, using greens and blues on the top dragon and darker shades of purple on the bottom dragon. Watercolor is still a relatively untested media for me so I turned to markers and some colored pencil to further define the details of the two dragons and continued building upon the layers until I was satisfied with the outcome.
There was one point in time that I had my three year old neice sitting up with me at my art desk and she was playing with my markers on a separate piece of paper. She was being very good about keeping her scribbles to that paper only, but eventually she made a motion for this piece and left a small auqamarine mark next to the top dragon's tail. Luckily for me the tail had not been colored yet so I was able to cover up most of it. Needless to say, I learned my lesson on leaving such things within reach of the little ones.
See a full view of the picture in my portfolio on DarkGryph Studios.
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