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Painting @ The Torpedo Factory – Week 2 recap
Started from here going into the 2nd day of class. Well, now we’re getting to the nitty gritty: color. I know I should be champing at the bit about this as an aspiring painter, but I was just about...
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Homework for this week
So I decided to do a self-portrait for my homework assignment. Danni said that achieving a likeness shouldn’t be the goal, and I think I may have taken that too literally! I don’t think it looks like...
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The Next Study
An underpainting of the model from class Piggy-backing off of yesterday’s post, here’s what came out of me shifting my butt in gear and getting to class. I didn’t get to “finish” the previous painting...
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Portrait/Figure Painting Class Week 6
So last week I left off at with an oil sketch in brown of the next pose in class. Today we continued on, and I added color to it. The color combinations of the skintones may look strange, but trust me...
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Le Apple
I did a quick study of an apple last night. Nothing too deep about it, I just felt the need to complete SOMEthing. Going to try to do a new painting tonight too! Stay tuned…
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Figure Painting Workshop pictures – Day 2
The exercises from day 1 weren’t worth photographing, but day 2 marked the beginning of the long pose that we’re going to work on the the rest of the week. Here is the progression of my study on the...
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Figure Painting Workshop pictures – Day 3
Now it’s starting to get difficult. I became really frustrated today while I was working on this study. I must’ve been having an off day or something, I don’t know, but it seemed like nothing I did...
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Figure Painting Workshop Pictures – Day 4
Day 3 was a really tough one for me and the beginning of Day 4 was no different! I was struuuuuggling! But, fortunately I was able to get some help and attention from the instructors and I started to...
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Playing with color
I have a few days off this week, but the work doesn’t stop. I spent most of the day working on this study for a larger painting that I want to do. I thought that I would practice the technique I...
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Life and Beauty, oil on canvas
“Life and Beauty”, 22″x28″. Oil on canvas. This was a commissioned piece that I just finished last weekend and finally sent off to the client two days ago. It’s going to be auctioned off at a...
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