Limp

Looking for something to paint my, not too fresh anymore, birthday flowers appealed to me. A small painting on a piece of cardboard.

Entwined

 

A small oil painting on sketch paper I did today. It was the first of four in a row! So it was quite a productive day.

With this one I took reference from felixdeon's nude stock on Deviantart --> http://felixdeon.deviantart.com/

That painting of Freedom

Recently I recorded a tv-show in where they explained Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La liberte guidant le peuple'. It was really interesting, especially about how some of the death bodies in the painting were copied from an other painting. I'm always surprised at hearing how much the old masters copied eachother! I guess it's quite logical since they didn't have the endless stock resources like we have today on the net or a digital camera!

I was quite lucky to have an art book about classical romantic paintings, and not only did it have a picture of the 'liberte' it also had an enlarged detail of the painting. Score! I used that as reference to copy the profile of the woman in the painting.

And I'm quite happy with the result! It took 2 sessions to paint it. The colours turned out real nice, I tried following the palette of the old painting but drifted away from it in the second layer. Though it's the brush strokes and the texture which are the best bit for me.

Drawing after Model

Results of yesterdays nude model drawing class. I'm quite happy with these two sheets, especially the first one! I've always liked how loose, elegant lines can sum up a human anatomy.

The study that went wrong

Today was one of those days when I really wanted to paint but it felt like everything was working against me. I even found this huge spider in my paint box! It was as if I wasn't suppose to paint today but I did... and I came up with this study of a Michelangelo fresco.

I'm  liking the thickness of the paint, the colours are okay but I do think you can tell  my heart wasn't in it. It just lacks that bit of liveliness, the lines are weak and so is the figure, it just sorta hangs there in blobs of paint, probably because I wasn't as concentrated as usual.

But at least I got to paint today!!

Something Egyptian Themed

Oil on Wood

Marilyn Monroe

Oil on 70 x 100 rayon cotton canvas