Tough Pose

We had a new model who took a great pose she had trouble repeating. Because I was sitting to the side I was able to correct a bit. I loved the way her skin took the light. The artist sitting opposite had to leave early; maybe I can capture her features some other night! I loved the way the two sets of blue-jeaned legs joined at the knee.
Oil on gessoed cardboard, 32" x 28"   Betsy Kendall 

Tracy

I hated every one of these drawings while I was still at the Firehouse. But when I came home and worked on them a bit more, I liked them a little better. They're all done in pastel and colored pencil, with a little india ink. The paper is watercolor paper treated with sauce.

Invitation to a Show

Kanna Aoki who paints in the Tuesday morning figure group will be showing paintings in March at Neilson Arts, 1537 Solano Ave in Berkeley. The opening receptions is Sat. March 12 from 7 to 9. She is showing with Barbara Maricle and Wilma Wyss who are both on our Reemerging Artist list. Hope to see you there.

Firehouse at Night

I have started scratching the surface of canvas covered in a thin film of dark paint. At night, it seems easier to start from the dark, instead of from a light-colored canvas. Then I paint on top of this film and the values stay dark enough. For the light areas, I scrape the space they occupy with a palette knife... if I remember to bring one!

Painting Jenny

The evening group had Jenny as a model. We have a different model each week with a long pose. I worked on this one more in my studio.  I always love Jenny as a model because she can make lots of shapes in the simplest of poses with twists and use of her hands. She said my paintings reminded her of a friend of hers and I looked him up. There were a lot of similarities. I liked his paintings. He had more humor in them than I do and they were very spontaneous.  This one of Jenny is 24 by 30 acrylic on canvas.

Invitation to East Bay Landscape Painters Show

We would love to see you. This is the sister landscape group to our figure group. Find out more about it and join us painting outside!!

Karen B.

Karen was a lot of fun to paint. This one was done in acrylics on canvas.