Life Drawing Fun!

Every Thursday morning this summer I have been enjoying life drawing. I use oil pastels on brown paper from Home Depot's paint department. It comes on big rolls and I cut off a bunch of random pieces before I go. Here are some samples. You can see crazy color is my favorite!

Portrait Assignment

I had an assignment to paint my husband's grandkids, Estella and Andrew. (I am much too young to be a grandmother to his son's children! Ha!) Anyway, working from a photo I did this acrylic 16x20. It went fairly smooth. Now that I am not working a day job I can paint into the late night and get things done faster.

The Job That Wasn't For Me

Well last week I had the fastest job ever. I quit before I started! I was hired to do painting workshops in art stores for a paint manufacturer. Sounded like a pretty cool part time gig. Then the "curriculum" came they wanted me to teach. It was scripted copy cat paintings that the students were to paint along on little 9x12" canvas boards. This was wrong for so many reasons I can't list them here. I quickly emailed my resignation...yikes that was a close call!
Meanwhile Life Drawing continues to be a real high point to my week. I'd better finish getting my studio cleaned up so I can get to painting soon.

Paintings from Lake Pleasant

This is a series of paintings of the area around Lake Pleasant. They hung in the reception for my niece Ingrid and Adam's wedding which overlooked the lake.