Painting
My favorite gesture by far. 3 minutes is almost too short for my style. The wet on wet technique that dominates my way of painting does not work well in such a short period of time. There’s no time to dry between layers and while everything blends together beautifully there’s […]
5 Minute Gesture
The first gesture of the week. I enjoy this one because it shows my progress from the first time I took this class. I was known as puddles that semester. Not because I have a habitual problem wetting the floor, but because all my gestures looked like puddles of color. […]
3 Minute Gestures
Meg This is Meg. This model was a bad two weeks for me. I don’t have anything against her, but I hate drawing her. She is near impossible. Her coloring is difficult as well. Every time I sat down I happened to be in mostly shadow and her shadows tend […]
Meg, 2-4-09 (40 Minutes)
I have started to turn this blog over to the sketchbook. I deleted most of my old assignments, except a few that I deemed necessary to show my progress over the last three years as well as paintings from last semester. I think that it is important to show my […]
One more thang….
This is a fountain just south of the art institute. It started raining 15 minutes into the painting, but I really like what the paint was doing.
Sketchbook
This painting started out as being an exercise in a loose, fast technique and trying to use colors. I am very happy with the way it turned out.
Nude Female
This is a close up of my favorite part of the daffodil painting.
Plein Air Painting (1st time)
A Quick Painting of Joe This painting is done in one hour only. A quick painting of Joe. I had to make up a project during the week we used a model and he was kind enough to sit in for me.
One Hour Painting of Joe
This is my second water color painting. My first still life. I love the way it turned out too. It’s an African figurine, a plaster hand w/ broken fingers and a shell. I love the shadow from the figure and the shell. At the beginning of the class that shell […]