Last Wednesday was my life drawing class. It's uninstructed and the models are all the same people from when I took the class a year ago so if you see familiar faces you're correct. After some pencil sketches I switched to the ipad. These were half hour poses. I feel pretty happy that I was even able to finish a painting in that amount of time. I liked the colors. I see some progress in my color choices. The skin tone isn't pasty white like some of my earlier paintings. I worked on it a little after class to try and fix some things but I see it's still off in areas in the portrait.
I'm also taking a Figurative Master Painting class that teaches old master techniques. Last class we practiced under painting in oils. We used just one mid-tone thinned down with Turpenoid and then erased back to the white of the canvas by dabbing with a cloth wrapped finger. We'll have a model in the next class. I'm looking forward to trying this technique on the human form. :)
