Saturday, October 15, 2011

New Figure Painting in Progress

I've joined a regular Wednesday evening figure painting class taught by Juan Martinez at the Academy of Realist Art.  Below is the work in progress. It will be a "monochrome" study of the model Robin that I will have until mid-December to complete (about 10 sessions in all). For this first effort in front of a live model, I'm forgetting about the complexities of skin colour and temperature, and concentrating instead on value and form. That makes the exercise much easier. The drawing on the canvas was fairly quick for me and now I'm slowly modelling the shadows and lights...


Fishing Still Life -- Finished

It's now finished and home drying.  And I can turn to other projects at last.  I think this is the one and only time I'll ever attempt to paint printed words upside down on warped pages.