Recent paintings

The grey paper book arrived yesterday. 

I did two watercolor pencils paintings. I have written earlier about watercolor pencils.  To me it is a great invention.  Apply like pencils.  Spread like watercolors.

However. 

Are watercolor pencils great for realistic rendering? Are they great for portraits?

Camlin oil pastels (50 shades; about 250 rupees) are good for portraits drawing.  Camlin poster colors(steel box of 12 colors; 185 rupees; yellow, orange, red, blue, brown,white,black) for portraits are also good. I use skin colored pencils (Mont Marte; Amazon) in combination with poster colors for portraits. 

Coming to the point.

Here are the two paintings I did on the new grey paper notebook.