Watercolor Portraits: Age

Painting the figure with models is an ongoing project that started many years ago. The more I painted the figure the more interested I got into their expression, their feelings: their face. I started sketching portraits during longer poses and it eventually became a habit in the last few years.
What most art models are missing is... age! So I ventured into this theme little by little founding that the older the model, the better the portrait. Do you think the same or do you have a different opinion? Let's talk about it in the comments!
Here are a few examples of portrait that have one thing in common: an older age.
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I share this monochromatic portrait of Rosalind Fox Solomon because this has very much to do with my teaching method, I like to study tonal values using a very limited palette, here I use mostly Gris de Paine from Winsor and Newton and a touch of Ambrogio Yellow Earth by Rublev (click for website)

I painted this watercolor to remember one of my great Masters, Alessandro Mendini. I use a technique of wet over dry at the end in order to create textures and build up wrinkles of the skin. I use Van Dyke Brown, Alizarin Crimson, Yellow Ocher Light, Ambrogio Yellow Earth, Cobalt Blue by Rublev (click for website)

This last watercolor shows how we can capture a model's personality even with a profile portrait. I like to show this work because the palette is more extended and wrinkles are painted working with layers, same for the white hair that find their palette in the background which I worked in two stages in order to reach stronger highlights on the hair and edge light.
I hope you enjoyed my project Age. You can find more work in Instagram or in my website, and don't forget to check out my course here on Domestika!