#23 Two Pots Still Life

My friend Neomi and I decided to try to paint after a demo given by Paul Taggart.  We started it on one day and then finished on another so its not a one sitting painting.  We really had a great time with this although any relationship to Paul's painting is purely coincidental...I love working with the split primary palette.
Prussian Blue and Ultramarine blue--Cadmium red and Alizarin  crimson --- Cadmium yellow and Lemon yellow + white. We have lots to learn with color mixing... we hope to do the same subject again using impasto style.

#22 Cat

After a long while that I haven't done much "daily" paintings I have decided that I HAVE to conquer my fear of doing oils at home on a small scale... even if it comes out a mess... So I started by going to the the weekend drawing events on wet canvas and did this small 20x20 cm cat from the wonderful references that DominicM gave for August 3rd.

Wet on wet is way out of my comfort zone.... used two main paints for my grays  Ultramarine blue and raw umber... naples yellow for the eyes.

Another Challenge TAXI #21

Heleni has given us another challenge to help get us out of the "box" ... this time the word TAXI.....
After really trying to rack my brain I saw one of the latest "Who Do You Think You Are" series where Roshida  Jones , who was looking for her grandmother, found out that she worked as a "Taxi Dancer".... After looking for some references found one of some girls waiting on the sidelines.... Today is the critique....

Work done on 300 grm paper  gouache and oil pastel....about 45 cm x 35 cm

Still out of my comfort zone with gouache... but had fun with this one...