Painting Class March 30 2008

At last finished.... I have to let it work on me to decide whether I like it or not!!!



Next week starts a new project!!!!

WC-Weekend Drawing Event- March 28 2008

This weekend a great tour of Suz-lyn's ranch in Eastern Montana...Great Images Here !
Sue gave us the challenge to work one reference in 2 mediums!!!

First I chose the reference of Sue's Dad for my portrait practice.



Done in graphite in A4 Canson sketch pad.

The meadow lark was done in a fast 15 min pen sketch and a crayon painting.





Also couldn't resist the Kelpie pup... another quick 15 minute pencil sketch.

Painting Class March 23 2008

To see previous versions see post of 16th March

Here I started to work on the flowers and some of the background.



The photo is not a very good representation....not happy with the background or the flowers.... hope to finish next week!!!!

WC-Weekend Drawing Event- March 21 2008

This week Stoney hosted .... after a few days that the whole site was down he saved the day and his images were up on Saturday!!!!

Images Here

I did three references.... portrait,puppy and sky image!!
So good to be back!!!! Wouldn't be a weekend without WDE and WC!!!!
Thanks Stoney for hosting.....saved the day!!! Weekend!!!! Week!!!!

A light pencil portrait [hb mechanical] on Canson A4 90grm sketch pad I enhanced abit so you could see it. about 50 min...



Crayon sketch, neocolor II ,of the puppy... 1.5Hrs Canson 90grm sketch pad A4



Graphite sketch, Canson 90gram A4 sketch pad... about an hour... put a bit of color with crayons... didn't really work

Painting Class March 16 2008

Last week I started my first, at least to my knowledge,oil painting.last week's post
This week I continued to work on it... really felt that I am swimming in deep water... and not always in control. I have to learn how the paints inter-react.. What each brush can/will do... how to get the tones I want. A lot of trial and error... Dov points us in the direction... and lets us go.....

Reminder of the painting at its first stage.



Started working on the background greens and earth tones and then worked in some of the reds of the flowers.



This is the third stage after adding the second color of flowers and more greens. I feel utterly out of depth... not really in control....



I like the way the flowers are coming but the background is much too busy and I will have to think of a way to unify it. Don't know if I will have the nerve to work at it at home....

Drawing-Sketching-Weekly Event

WetCanvas is a very HUGE site catering to all types of art. Each media has its own forum with lots of learning threads and challenges, plus a place to show recent works. Up till now my comfy zone has been the WDE Weekly Drawing Events. The folks there are so encouraging and helpful and thanks to those events I have found a great deal of creative motivation. I also am able to learn about different approaches and various media.

I have been lurking around the Drawing and Sketching forum and decided to take part in their weekly drawing events.... I have been doing a few with out posting on the site but last week decided to post. The challenge was drawing clouds. Four reference images were put up. Here is my rendition using graphite pencils.
Weekly drawing March 3-9

CAROL LEE: What I see here that is so satisfying is the elements of relationship. How the evergreens on the left relate to the lighter valued trees on the right, and then the layers of light and mid tone in the sky...we get a great sense of depth!

A comment from one of the moderators!!!!

WC-Weekend Drawing Event- March 14-2008

This weekend Rohit from India is the host. Great images but so far I have only done a few quick portrait sketches... that is my personal challenge each week.... and also did a crayon painting that didn't turn out the way I wanted.... did some experimenting with under painting in complimentary colors.... but with crayons didn't seen to work well.
The reference images are HERE

Faces of India



Field