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.
I fancied a change from people and since my girlfriend likes Gorillas I decided to paint one.
Oil on canvas. This took about 6 hours total to finish. All in all I’m pretty happy and Claudia like it so I’m going to call this one a success. Quite allot harder to paint than people because of the minute detail. I tried to get a bit painterly with this to create fur effect without spending hours trying to make it textured. After many attempts at the yes I’m very happy with the ones I finished with. Capturing an animals soul is possibly harder than a humans.
here is a Giff of the stages
I realized I had a set of images through the progression of the ultimate warrior painting.
They are roughly 1 every hour but its not accurate. I essentially just took a snap before going on a break.
I thought it might be fun to make an animated gif that cycles through them so here it is.
Its quite good/interesting to see for me the artist or for anyone else who is vaguely interested so I might try to do more of them for future paintings. I might even time them accurately or video the whole session. who knows.
attempt at monochromatic 2
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
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.
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.
Rocky! Rocky! Rocky!..
An Image inspired by a good friend. The ultimate warrior who passed away just recently.
Im really happy with this although it is unfinished.
Life Model on Canvas
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