Bibi

A painting of a woman with short brown hair holding a red rotary phone to her ear against a blue background. She wears a brown pinstripe jacket, a red top, a pearl necklace, and a blue ring. The artwork has stylized, colorful features with a signature in pink in the bottom left corner.

May 2022

I made this piece for the birthday of an online friend of mine, we were both big fans of the artist Bibi at the time. So I made a mixed media piece based of a teaser image of her release “The Weekend”. I first colored in her face and hands with colored pencils, then I used gouache to paint all of the other main parts. Lastly I scanned it in, cleaned up the details, added a few more phone cords and added a warm toned texture filter over the whole image.

A partially completed colored portrait of a woman with dark hair, red highlights, and traditional jewelry, with a sketch of a flower in a pot in the background.
A colorful portrait of a woman with dark hair, wearing red earrings, a red top, and a necklace, against a blue background.