Making Progress in Life Drawing (or at least trying to)
I’ve been doing pretty regular life drawing for a few years now. At first I made progress relatively quickly, having done quite a lot of life drawing when I was in my twenties. But in the last few...
View ArticleThe Loire
The Loire Originally uploaded by csytoussaint A postcard – sized sketch for a friend`s framing project. I`m trying to make a decent oil painting out of this scene as well.
View ArticleMay is for Sketching
I haven`t been too happy with my artwork lately and so have been keeping it to myself. Wendy Shortland has invited me to join her Every Day in May sketching project, though, so it`s time to wake up a...
View ArticleMay sketches, Continued and Discontinued
update : this post is from earlier in the week but I hadn’t been able to publish until now. I did try to keep up with the Every Day in May Sketching Challenge, but then internet went down for a week...
View ArticleLes Carnets Baladeurs – sketchbook contribution
I hadn`t done one of these in ages, and when this sketchbook arrived I had a difficult time finding inspiration. The theme is rêveries – dreams – or maybe daydreams is a better translation. The only...
View ArticleMarylou
Some life drawing from last night. These were done in grey marker and graphite. Poses were about 5 minute (basically whenever the timekeeper had finished his drawing).
View ArticleStill Life with Oranges
For some reason, when I paint in oils I always produce extremely tight paintings. Landscapes are improving a bit, but I tend to rework still life subjects and lose all spontaneity. I tried doing this...
View ArticleSome recent paintings
Well, I haven’t been blogging hardly at all for the last year or so, but I have been painting. One of the reasons I slowed down on sharing my work here is that my oil paintings always look terrible in...
View ArticleSplit Complementaries
I’ve been experimenting with painting with a very limited palette lately. One thing I’ve done is use only 3 colors plus white to see how far it could be pushed. Here are some of the results. These...
View ArticleMore limited palette paintings
These 2 were done with exactly the same palette, green, blue-green, and orange red, mixes of these and white. They were all pre-mixed from various tube colors. I was surprised at how different the...
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