yet more stuff!

a flurry of posts this month...here are some gouache studies i did the other day at workshop. these are i think either 10 or 15 minute poses (i usually try not to think too much about that and just work as fast as possible!).

a few months back i started using holbein acryla gouache instead of windsor newton. with windsor newton i'd always worked opaque, laying lights over darks. i've had less success with this approach with the acrylas...so finally after a lot of complete failures at the workshop i broke down and tried to approach the as purely water color. still have some brush/color control issues to pay attention to, but it seems to have worked better. boy was it a struggle though!

Another workshop, and more silliness

So here we are at the end of June?! What happened to those other 5 months? There was recently another clothed figure workshop in lovely old victorian; this time with an Egyptian theme. Per usual I was very psyched to go. Unfortunately I didn't have a very good time of it. Maybe it was more crowded this time with more people moving around causing distraction or something, but I was just not on. My drawings were mostly wishy washy. However, here are a few that I managed to fix up somewhat afterwards. Also something from the latest drink and draw...started off as random shapes and somehow turned into this crabby looking thing. Kind of fun I guess. Though looking at it again, I could probably stand to add some indication of his other legs.