Portrait Class 4/15/14

My first portrait class.  I have drawn portraits before with charcoal, but this was my first time to paint a portrait.  First we warmed up with a drawing, practicing a loose blocking in of the facial features.

Then the exact same thing with the paint.  This is oil paint.

Considering it was just a 2.5 hour class and we had a demo in there and all, I'm quite pleased with both my drawing and painting.

Art Class 4/2/14

Color study in oil.  We had about an hour and 45 minutes to turn out a painting.  The goal was to do most of the mixing on the canvas, not on the palette.  The teacher is pushing lots of painting starts.  There isn't time to get hung up on fussy details.  I'm not crazy about how the lemon came out, but I think the sugar bowl came out pretty well.