Art Blog » January 2006
spring class
Yesterday I started taking an oil painting class. I haven’t painted with oils in years … about 10 years, I think (here’s one of my oil paintings from 10 years ago). for the first day of class, we drew a model using charcoals and paper, one of my favorite media. I’ve posted here the following items from last night:
blue duck from the front
More of the Blue Duck, this time from the front.
Also did a drawing from a photo of Dean, bending steel with his teeth.
Kayak Sketches
Well over a year ago, nearly two years ago now, I think, a friend sent me some photographs of her boat to render in watercolor. Somehow the project never actually got off the ground. I’ve pulled the photos out now, and am sketching them in oil pastels. Perhaps they’ll live in watercolor someday as well. Here’s the boat and here’s the paddle.
Luna
Looks like I’m getting sucked in by oil pastels, a medium I haven’t worked with in a little while. This drawing is based on a photo I took of Luna, a wonderful canine living in Santa Cruz, CA. She’s mellow, though always up for a walk, and is here captured while taking a nap on the couch.
Mary’s Elephant
Here’s the second piece inspired by the lovely photographs of Mary Schwalm. This elephant turned out to be more colorful than I’d anticipated. As usual, I tried to match the colors of my drawing to the photograph, but find myself quite constrained by the colors available in my oil pastel box — this is different from watercolors, where I can create any color I want. I think it’s a blessing in disguise.
Mary’s Frog
I’m hoping to do a number of pieces inspired by the lovely photographs of Mary Schwalm, who has generously agreed to lend me large prints of some of her work. This first attempt, in oil pastels, is to get the ball rolling. Look for watercolors and papercuts, too.
3 fuller pl
The fourth guerilla papercut is done. It would have been done sooner, but I was sick almost all week and didn’t get much chance to work on it. It’s got the standard birchat for visitors as well as an image of the house that I converted from a photograph I took, shabbat dinner items, and flowery decorations.