A gouache painting I did of the model Eden, a preview for next Tuesday's (12/17/13) evening session. We'll be drawing him in two morning sessions in January.

I found his situation rather funny, brown man in the midst of all those pink bosoms!

Betsy Kendall

Cynthia, two ways

Here are two versions of Cynthia.  The first is pencil on paper.  The second is a digital painting done on my iPad.

Evening Paintings

These are two paintings done in the evening painting group recently. The light changes a lot in the evening as the days are becoming longer and it starts out light in the gallery and then changes. I enjoy working with the changes.    Karen

Bonnie in a Hat       acrlic on canvas   20 by 24

Lisa with Flowers   acrylic on canva s   20 by 24 

Oakland Art Murmur Show Invitation

Jamie Bereal a member of the Tuesday night figure group is showing some of her work at upcoming Oakland Art Murmur nights.

Two Models

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

Bonnie   

Xavier

Xavier

Xavier posed for our painting group in one evening. The character of the sitter, the tattoo on his arm, the black and white stripes on the T-shirt and the still life on the table made it interesting to paint. This was done on a 18" x 24" canvas with acrylic.   Philip Ng

Barbara with iPad

In the many months since I last drew at the Firehouse,
I have acquired an iPad with several several drawing/painting programs.  These two drawings of Barbara were done in
Procreate.  I have done very little life drawing or portraiture
with the iPad and am still not used to  it.  But it has some definite advantages over traditional media--for instance, it's lightweight and portable, it allows infinite undo/redo, and no clean-up is required afterwards.  Plus, the iPad lets me hear my favorite music with earbuds while I draw.  I hope to get better at iPad drawing with practice.