First Weekend of December

It's been a while since I painted in oils at the open studio... and it's been a while since I was there at all.  There's a lot of warming up to do still.  Painted this past Friday, live model posed for about 3 1/2 hours.

Friday Painting

Anne - 16" x 12", oil on linen panel

Warehouse 521 hosts open studios on Fridays (when there aren't workshops scheduled).

It's four and a half hours (breaks and lunch in that too) of putting our skills to work

in the company of other artists.  We always have fun!

Thanks to Jeanie Smith for providing us with this space.

Portrait Sketch

Guitarist - 14" x 17" oil on linen

This week's live model portrait session.  Three hours... fun!

Painting A Live Model

Portrait Sketch - Approx. 16" x 20" Oil on linen

This week I was able to be a fill in at a portrait session at SouthGate Studio.  We had a live model and four hours to do our painting.  Fantastic practice and extremely worthwhile for someone who's wanting to paint portraits.  I hope to do more of this.  This isn't as finished as I would like (actually quite rough), but I am happy with the results for the limited amount of time.