Two Models

Jaeme Bereal sent these two recent portraits to the blog. They are both in acrylic on board.

Bonnie   

Xavier

Portraits of Barbara and Ricardo

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The morning figure painting session in Firehouse North restarted after a short Summer break. I did these two charcoals in the latest couple of sessions. They are on 18" x 24" heavyweight drawing paper.    Philip Ng

Vicki's Paintings

Vicki Salzman has been coming to the group for a long time and will start blogging and posting her work soon. In the meantime I am posting these images of her oil paintings for her. She has been working for many years on her portraiture skills and will describe that process below. I really like the way she uses the picture plane in this group of paintings.

Vicki says, " The figure painting group helped me narrow my selection of paintings to these 4 for our upcoming show in September at the Firehouse Gallery North. These paintings are the result of 6 years of studies with the master San Francisco portraitist, Bob Gerbracht. Bob's method includes learning to do a precise rendering of the model's face, before once can begin to add color. Color is then applied in a relational way. Each painted area is influenced and affected by the color next to it: background to hair, hair to shadow-side of face, shadow-side to lit area of face. Highlights come last. It is a very methodical way of painting, but one can get remarkably good results."