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In late June it rained very hard outside the gallery, but it was warm inside. Our model, Ricardo, was wearing a bright warm orange T-shirt with a shiny purple violet scarf. This is a figure study I did with soft pastel on Carson pastel paper. The size is 19" x 29"   Philip Ng

Terry

Terry has an interesting face with lots of

character. I did three studies of him in acrylic on paper. This was the most successful of them.

Making Comments

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Comments: Harder now????

Am I the only person who is having trouble posting comments here?
Even though I'm logged in, and Blogger/EBFP knows who I am, I can't
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Anybody else have this problem?

Red Prom Dress

I was completely interested in the dress and not so much on the figure in this painting. I wanted to depict shiny red satin.

Lorraine in a Blue Leotard

Having seen paintings by Egon Schiele in Vienna recently, I was itching to try something new. So I tried to break out of my box (and paint like Schiele). These don't look anything like Schiele's work, but they are a slight departure from my usual drill.

I keep trying to do something different, and must confess I find it very difficult. Even though I don't think of myself as having much of a "style," whatever "style" I do possess seems very hard to escape.

Our First Nude in a While

The Firehouse just acquired these great curtains, so now we can paint nudes if we want to. Considering that is the first one I paint in more than a year, I have two things to say: It is possible to see the gradations of the flesh tones at night, even with incandescent light. Your eyes eventually get used to this over a period of months. Also, using gel helps you control opacity. This makes it easier to depict flesh with acrylic. Lately, I've been experimenting with applying layers of opposite values with a paint knife, then scraping through them or blending them to form various grays. To see what this looks like, look at the wall.