Joan Gallagher's from March

 Emily B

Mary and Bob

 They were done with chalk pastels and watercolor. These models were so loose and inspirational!

Ellen Pechman's two

 This drawing of Clinay captures her sweet personality.

An adventure in dynamic drawing, new EB drawing participant, Ellen, framed a touch between our two models in one of our monthly two-model drawing session. [Medium is conte, vine charcoal, and pastel)

Jaeme Bereal's painting

From 2/15 evening session. Challenge? Color was a challenge b/c he was a monotone and very subtle.

China Bride?

Jenny Lemper posed in her fabulous Chinese wedding headdress and nothing else sometime last year. I wanted to put in some of the junk in the background, so it took me some time to get around to working it in, using photos I took of the studio. The strange green & black cylinder on the floor is the box the headdress comes in. Thank you Jenny!
Gouache on a full sheet of Fabriano hot press paper.

Kelsey

Kelsey is a new model with the Guild.  

She has a very interesting face.

This portrait is in acrylics on paper.

Paintings: Christine, Sarah, Carolyn

After drawing for about a year, and neglecting painting, I recently decided to go back to acrylics for portraiture...but with a difference.  Instead of painting the way I used to, with a lot of line-work typical of drawing,  I decided to try painting in a more standard way, with flat color areas that work together to imply lines and planes.  It doesn't come naturally to me, and the results so far seem like a step backwards, but the one of Christine is promising, and hopefully I'll get better with time.

Christine

Sarah

Carolyn

Maria

 Maria came to the Firehouse twice.  Both times, I used charcoal and watercolor.  The little watercolor with the flower is on Yupo.