I haven't posted any new artwork on here in quite a while, have I? Okay, time to play catch-up. I've been working on several different things.
I've got a new wedding painting on my easel right now that I'm close to finishing up. No, it's not ready for prime time yet, so you can't see it, but at least you know it's there and it has been sucking up a good bit of studio time lately.
I've also got a double-portrait commission pretty much done. The one who commissioned it is going to come to the studio soon to give it the thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Once I get a thumbs-up, you'll see it here. Again, it's something that has been taking up a good bit of studio time.
I've done several more new pieces in my charcoal and pastel series. Several focus on Astrid, a lovely young lady:
I see some of these as more successful than others. My favorites are #1 and #4. I'd like to hear what you think - leave a note a tell me!
We had a young man sit for our Wednesday night group a couple of weeks ago as a portrait model. Nicholas has very distinctive features and was an excellent model, as well as being a really fascinating subject of study. Here's how his portrait turned out:
The next week, we had a new model, Jazmin. I was pretty happy with her head and face at the end of the session, but didn't like the way everything below her neck turned out. So the next day, I wiped out the body and reworked it entirely. This second try turned out much better:
So there you have it: most of my artworks over the past many weeks. There were a bunch of other attempts in addition to these, but they were failures and consigned to the trash bin. My failure rate seems to hover around 50% - that is, half of the things I start wind up looking pretty bad, at least to my eyes. Of the ones that are not failures, maybe half are okay, some are not bad, and a very few are pretty good. Many years ago, one art student told me that he never had failures. I told him he wasn't trying hard enough!
I've got a new wedding painting on my easel right now that I'm close to finishing up. No, it's not ready for prime time yet, so you can't see it, but at least you know it's there and it has been sucking up a good bit of studio time lately.
I've also got a double-portrait commission pretty much done. The one who commissioned it is going to come to the studio soon to give it the thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Once I get a thumbs-up, you'll see it here. Again, it's something that has been taking up a good bit of studio time.
I've done several more new pieces in my charcoal and pastel series. Several focus on Astrid, a lovely young lady:
Astrid #1
Astrid #2
Astrid #3
Astrid #4
Astrid #5
Astrid #6
I see some of these as more successful than others. My favorites are #1 and #4. I'd like to hear what you think - leave a note a tell me!
We had a young man sit for our Wednesday night group a couple of weeks ago as a portrait model. Nicholas has very distinctive features and was an excellent model, as well as being a really fascinating subject of study. Here's how his portrait turned out:
Nicholas
Jazmin
So there you have it: most of my artworks over the past many weeks. There were a bunch of other attempts in addition to these, but they were failures and consigned to the trash bin. My failure rate seems to hover around 50% - that is, half of the things I start wind up looking pretty bad, at least to my eyes. Of the ones that are not failures, maybe half are okay, some are not bad, and a very few are pretty good. Many years ago, one art student told me that he never had failures. I told him he wasn't trying hard enough!
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