MARCH 10, 2022

16 X 20 PASTEL

MONDAY DEMO FEBRUARY 28, 2022

 Seemed like a good idea to pay tribute to the latest snow storm.  9 x 12 oil on board

FIGURE WORKSHOP FEBRUARY 2022

I had a great time teaching my figure workshop on zoom.  It is challenging but I think it went really well.  Had to work from photos of course and used some of mine and others on line.  

A few of my demos ranging from 3 minutes to 25

 

MONDAY OIL DEMO 2/21/2022

 My 9 x 12 oil demo for class.  I used two different photo references and created my colors being inspired but in no way wedded to my photos

DEMO FOR PASTEL SOCIETY OF MAINE

14 X 18 PASTEL DEMO 

 

PASTEL VASE WITH FLOWERS PROCESS

 This is a 12 x 16 pastel of a vase with flowers against a busy background.  I am posting stills of my process.  I start with squinting to see the basic values and look at shapes only without deciding what they are.  This is an example of working thinking abstractly to create an illustrative painting.  I keep things general at first and then go into details.

Unfortunately I couldn't keep them in the right order so each is labeled underneath

step 1

    

step 2

final

step 4

step 3

MONDAY OIL DEMO

 Here is my one hour oil demo for Monday.  I focused on shadow shapes and carving them with the light to create the scene.