August 09 apprenticeship

This was another practice piece done durring a 3 day refresher with my art teacher. I took pictures of the progress from beginning to end.

I'll be doing easy / practice pieces for a while to get the wheels rolling again, so these will be more on the impressionistic side.



First you lay in the shadows / cold colors.



Next bring in the warm colors.

Last stage, laying down the detail.

Rub Dub

This one was a practice piece and just for fun. I like how the ringlets turned out.

circa 1986

This was my first painting done during art school. The baby is my little sister Tracy. It's not done but what's there so far seems to be workng.