Not much to show from figure painting this last semester.  I really feel like I didn't learn anything the whole time, I don't have a better sense of painting with oils, I don't have a better grasp of what colors to use and how to apply them, in general I feel like the only thing I got out of the class was a feeling of frustration and despair toward ( Read more... )

We had to do 30 12x12 portraits in 30 days for painting. In order to complete the task I limited myself to one hour per portrait and mixed mass quantities of fleshy colors. The results are not great but I had all 30 done and the really bad ones have been removed so you don't have to see them. ;)


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Figure work from my figure painting class, some of it's older, I'm trying to post it in order as best I remember. These first two were from a class in which I developed a much better sense of how to go about things:

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Joe painted a desk.  I helped!


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We have been working with plaster in 3D, it's good fun but apparently the humidity has combined with our collective ineptitude to create the disagreeable situation of everyone having wet plaster to work with that seems like it might never dry.  Oh well, here's the initial sketch:


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Part of our figure painting homework is to do a themed drawing/painting every week in our sketchbook (after researching an illustration in the same theme).  The first week was animal, I found an illustration by Jill Bennett from Roald Dahl's "Fantastic Mr. Fox", which was a favorite book of mine as a child.  I painted a Donkey.  I need to work on ( Read more... )

We had our last painting class this morning and had our wall show.  This isn't everything I put up but there was not too much more.  Sadly I was not alone in feeling woefully under worked this semester.

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