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PAINTING DEMONSTRATION

This is an excellent and interesting painting demonstration by Zhaoming Wu.  Notice how he begins the painting, in particular,  with the "envelope" to the "block-in" to the development of the painting beginning with massing in major shapes representing shadows and light.

TUESDAY CLASS ~ STILL LIFE PROGRESSION

Diana's drawing and under painting beginnings

Melodie's under painting ~ ready for the last stage ~ opaque paint

Valarie's drawing and under painting beginnings

  

TUESDAY ATELIER STUDENT WORK - Most Excellent!

Diana's egg still life.  This is her line drawing and the beginnings of the color-wash

Valarie's drawing of the still life

Melodie's egg still life - The colorwash

SATURDAY ATELIER STUDENT WORK

We are working on our final piece for the Saturday Atelier.  This is a 6 week long pose.  Starting with a good drawing, moving into the color-wash and finally, the opaque painting.  We have an excellent model and we're getting some outstanding drawings.  It's going to be exciting to see the end result!

Connie's drawing

Ashley's drawing

Bettina's drawing

Lani's drawing

Linda's drawing

Leslie's drawing and color-wash beginnings

Mimi's drawing

Ella's drawing

Paula's drawing

Roger's drawing

 

PASTEL DRAWING WORKSHOP

I've been teaching a pastel drawing class at the Fine Arts Institute for the last few weeks (it's a 6 week class).  The artists in the class are doing outstanding work.  Here are some of the pieces they have produced so far.  Well done!

 By Lani Pounders

By Lani Pounders

By Ashley Pool

By Caleb Mild

Lani working

By Ashley Pool

Caleb working

By Caleb Mild

By Sylvia Miller

COLOR STRINGS

TINA MCGINNIS

practiced making tints and shades of the three primary colors, three secondary colors and the tertiary colors.  These color strings are very well done with watercolor.  Mixing a range of tints and shades of all the hues in the spectrum is a wonderful practice.  You'll learn a great deal about color mixing.  Doing these studies will not replace your study of color from the live subject, but it will help to make you more familiar with your palette and the way colors interact with eachother. 

Primary Colors

Secondary Colors

Three of the tertiary colors