Trying to be different

but failing. I wanted to try something different this Saturday by using a more sketchy style and transparent paint. First a couple of 5 minutes.

Then I started the long pose with sanguine pencil on primed paper. This is after 45 minutes.

Unfortunately I then tried to fix the drawing using acrylic medium which just spread the drawing around. So I ended up using opaque acrylic as usual. Another 3 hours.

Painting from life

Need to come up with more original titles. 3 and one half hours, 24"x20" acrylic on canvas from life.

Main thought is that I need to be more consistent: shadows in the highlights too dark and similarly the highlights in the shadows need to be darker, but in doing this I don't want to lose the saturation of colour (which seems to happen when I paint over). Here was what it looked like after 1.5 hours (mostly drawing but in someways I prefer the colours).

Holiday paintings

Three painted on holiday, the last two from holiday photos.

Tess

One hour from life. A2 graphite.

From life

From life, about 1 hour 40 minutes.

Gouache

Some gouache sketches (and one longer study).

Tonight's session

OK, the quick poses were 3 minutes down to 30 seconds. Here you have me having too much time, simplifying, racing ahead, panicking and then accepting the time.