Precipice

different days different colors. The last picture, upper left, is the final version. I think it is pretty true to the color. Put a fork in it, I'm done...

Isis

this is somewhat a striking looking painting but a little too harsh maybe. I will work on that at home...

sweetness and an empty sack

Some drawings from Saturday with Jessica and a new still life. Drawings range from conte to pastel. Some great poses and light. The still life was set up on the kitchen counter.

portraits

Here are a few portraits from open session portrait night. I like the life in these alla prima portraits. The other is a WIP still life.

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Some drawings from Saturday night. These are all conte on newsprint. A nice surface to draw on but not very archival. I'm drawing here with the broad side of the crayons giving things a very structural hard edge. I like to pick out a point of interest in the pose and press down very hard accentuating it.

uncaped crusader

A portrait done at open session life art. I'm trying to incorporate a little more interesting backgrounds without taking away from the main interest. I had that side backlight thing going on again.

Saturday in December, 08

Here are a few new ones. Two are fairly quick pastels and one is a work in progress oil painting. The oil painting is done with a grey scale under painting (grisaille) and glazed over. Something I've been experimenting with a long time and finally kinda getting what those great (according to me) painters were doing. This is still new to me in some ways and I hope I can do it justice.

New life pastels

some new pastels from life drawing. I was trying to utilize the mid values of the paper. I need to incorporate some of this looseness and freshness in my paintings...