Summer Heat and Catching Up

My computer room/studio has no AC! Summer heat, we all know summer heat plus humidity!
What I don't get done in the morning when the room is relatively cool, just doesn't get done. Then I keep procrastinating.

July at the workshop is all about oils. Most paint with acrylics so for them it's their first taste of using oils. Some like it and some don't. We are getting very specific lessons, YAY, in the use of oils in the classic way. Think I wrote about this before. Anyway, first light charcoal sketches (real), working in sienna or raw umber in a tonal study, and then adding color. Learning to put down the masses/shapes and not get tied down in details.

Have also done some figure sketches with color.

Bacchus

Study in Oils

13.75 x 17 "

On Gessoed Paper

Study in Greens

Oils

19.75 x 13.75 "

Gessoed Paper

Figure after Mattisse Drawing

Charcoal + Caran D'ache Neocolor I Crayons + Oils

13.75 x 19.5

Gessoed Paper 

Reclining Woman

Charcoal + Caran D'ache Neocolor I Crayons + Oils

19.5 x 13.75 "

Gessoed Paper

Model from Croquis Cafe 

Uri on Boat Vietnam

Raw Umber Tonal Study

19.5 x 13.75 "

Gessoed Paper

Uri on Boat Vietnam

Caran D'ache Neocolor I Crayons  + Medium

19.5 x 13.75 "

Gessoed Paper

Apple Pie Anyone

These were finished a while ago. Two small apple studies on wrapped canvas 30 x 25 cm. Oils done with a palette knife.  Actually I don't know if these are really finished. I stopped mainly because Heleni said they were done. Since I often ruin good starts, this may have been her reason. This is something I have to overcome, the fear of continuing. Working on it in another gender,

Oils on Wrapped Canvas

30 x 25 cm

Oils on Wrapped Canvas

30 x 25 cm

May just make a pie and move on!