Oil Painting Practice

So Its been a couple of months since my last life drawing session. As is often the case with these things it felt like I had forgotten everything while working on this one. Oil paint on canvas with a live model. The addition of a cloth scarf was nice although I struggled to render it in a way to make the hair beneath stand out.

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Oil Paint Practice – monochromatic

Its been a while since Ive had time for any painting. Starting back this week I am planning on focusing my efforts on doing some monochromatics to try to get better at tone without worrying about color as well.I am very happy with these first two attempts and will go for another on Thursday.

monochromatic Attempt 1

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Oil Painting Practice

Had another Life drawing Lesson Thursday. Oils on canvas. A really frustrating session where at the end my favorite part of the image is the section bellow the left armpit. The part I barely touched after the first pass.The face and top arm I must have re-done a dozen times. All good practice though.

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Oil Painting Practice

Life model, painted in Oils on Canvas.

I really enjoyed this session. Working with the pallet knife a bit more to slap on big lumps of light, I still haven’t got the technique down and probably need a better pallet knife but I’m loving the effect it has.

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