Showing posts with label studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label studies. Show all posts

Friday, July 27, 2018

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







Monday, December 19, 2016

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!