Monday, June 17, 2013

Music Monday - White Winter Hymnal

Art friend, the amazing Howard Lyon, has a lovely, lovely daughter who is musically talented.

(Here's her cover of Fleet Foxes White Winter Hymnal).

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Sunday Sketching - Happy Father's Day!

My darling father - 
 (high school aged)

He's been a huge influence in my life - intellectual pursuits, artistic appreciation and an amazing example of family connection and human compassion.

But he has another side. 

An enormous Good Sport side.

 Awhile back, Dad deigned to participate in a photoshoot where he was dressed up as a rather goth/biker ogre type. :-)

...starting to morph more fully into full-ogre mode here. Further to push!

Happy Father's Day, Dad!







Friday, June 14, 2013

Figure Friday

 Costume day....

 Gestures...

Shorter poses....

Longer poses...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

WIP Wednesday - Georgetown Atelier

 Life drawing morning - 

 The draw over - small, but beautiful tweaks.

 Second pass of oil painting demo -



Toned paper demo..

Only one more week....

Sunday, June 09, 2013

Sunday Sketching

 Teensy purse Moleskine...

Alternate view of teacher... :-)


Friday, June 07, 2013

Figure Friday -

 Short-pose day. 

 Somehow, I got too unsteady with my picture taking, so I didn't come home with many in focus to show.

(Plus, it is was my daughter's birthday - so I had to leave early for a birthday lunch.)

My baby - 21 years old today...

 (she so loves having her picture taken. :-) )

Happy birthday baby!


Wednesday, June 05, 2013

WIP - Georgetown Atelier

 New foreshortened view of same model. Kicked my butt. Couldn't ever get to a 'happy' place with this one.

 My drawover...

 After lunch, we had an oil painting demo. Here's the toned block-in.

 Color/value strings to be able to lay tone down directly -

 Watching the master-copy painting....

So gorgeous so quickly!

Only a couple of weeks left...