Friday, February 26, 2010
Moving right along...
So how was that? You know when to stop painting when it will hurt the painting if you do anything more? Well sometimes that means you will go too far and then have to erase, or somehow recover. That is where I am with Corina: I thought a lighter "sky" and a layer of mountain-y stuff would be the cat's meow. WRONG. It makes it look like THIS:
Fortunately it won't be very hard to recover from this, simply by repainting the top of the canvas. That darker blue might show through anyway, but if anything I think a ghost of it might add to the overall quality. We shall see.
Corina is continuing to hold her pose for two more classes. I could do another painting of her, but I really am not thrilled to paint yet another nude, and I do want to try some other subjects using Osborne's style. Thought about the construction site across the street, with its heavy equipment, steel framework and flapping sheets. But too complex and no obvious central point.
So I decided to paint one of the other students. Did a quick pencil sketch to see how it might lay out, then got to work. I'm glad we will have another session, and hope my model is still painting Corina from the same position. As of now, here's where things stand on this one:
Otherwise, the Frances Harper portrait is still coming along. I finally bit the bullet and am now in the middle of re-painting her right hand. Actually, the amputation and re-implantation is going a little more smoothly than I anticipated. I showed the portrait to the Master, Ted Xaras, and he had some additional suggestions that I will incorporate. And I showed it to Rev. Nate, who was quite happy with it based on Frances' "serene but forceful" bearing.
Today I must pick up the two painting that have been on display at The Plastic Club Small Worlds exhibition, and deliver two others to the Sketch Club Art of the Flower exhibition.
Meanwhile Howard, down at the front desk, seemed really interested in having me paint a portrait of his parents. But I haven't been able to move that along, so it may just have been happy talk. Oh well.
Fortunately it won't be very hard to recover from this, simply by repainting the top of the canvas. That darker blue might show through anyway, but if anything I think a ghost of it might add to the overall quality. We shall see.
Corina is continuing to hold her pose for two more classes. I could do another painting of her, but I really am not thrilled to paint yet another nude, and I do want to try some other subjects using Osborne's style. Thought about the construction site across the street, with its heavy equipment, steel framework and flapping sheets. But too complex and no obvious central point.
So I decided to paint one of the other students. Did a quick pencil sketch to see how it might lay out, then got to work. I'm glad we will have another session, and hope my model is still painting Corina from the same position. As of now, here's where things stand on this one:
Otherwise, the Frances Harper portrait is still coming along. I finally bit the bullet and am now in the middle of re-painting her right hand. Actually, the amputation and re-implantation is going a little more smoothly than I anticipated. I showed the portrait to the Master, Ted Xaras, and he had some additional suggestions that I will incorporate. And I showed it to Rev. Nate, who was quite happy with it based on Frances' "serene but forceful" bearing.
Today I must pick up the two painting that have been on display at The Plastic Club Small Worlds exhibition, and deliver two others to the Sketch Club Art of the Flower exhibition.
Meanwhile Howard, down at the front desk, seemed really interested in having me paint a portrait of his parents. But I haven't been able to move that along, so it may just have been happy talk. Oh well.
