Sarah.... again.

This was started in the last session of Eduardo's portrait class at the MAC. I was so frustrated all along the way in that class--I even left in tears once! No reflection on Eduardo, only my own inability to execute my intentions. But I think I pulled out of the mire in the last class of the series. This was started then, from the live model, and then finished at home from the photo.

3/15/16

This is an outlier.... acrylic!

I was still a bit too classical with that last effort, I don't seem to get the brush marks I'm wanting, so I thought I'd resort to acrylics--they dry so fast you don't get anything but brush marks!!  So I did a painting of that last painting ("Repose"), which is a great exercise anyway. I won't post that (it was a painting "only a mother could love"!)--but did one more acrylic painting as a study from a photo taken in Florence two years ago.  Here 'tis.  While I've hated pretty much every painting I've ever done in acrylic, I am surprisingly happy with this one--but still intend to do a "real" painting in oils!

3/11/16

Repose

I like to name my life-study paintings by the model's name, but her name escapes me now.  So I guess the title will be "Repose" for the time being.  This was started in a (very excellent) Za workshop, and I finished it up at home. There are some Eduardo-influenced notes (from his class at the MAC) in this as well--namely, I think I got the "gesture" right. Between both of these fine teachers, perhaps I'm making some headway.

3/1/16

Lively Levi

This is photographer Levi Sims, who gave a very lively talk at a photography meetup monthly meeting. I was farther along with it, but did not like the flesh tones I'd mixed so I wiped a lot of it off. Then I liked the translucency I got.... but will still go back in and finish it with fresh paint mixtures.

February 19, 2016