Figure Drawing Meet Up

I got to go to a Meet Up in Seattle and figure draw for two hours with Jamie Bollenbach coaching us. I learned a lot and my most memorable: Don't just think in black n white -show the variety of relationships relative to each other by gently pressing when you see something indescribably neither dark nor light. Check out the second pic with the two 5 min drawings. I started drawing her "red" hair with the light shinging through it. I think I got three shades rather than my normal two "stamped look" this time generally speaking.

Tuesday I hope to get a series of lessons with him for oil painting.  

15 min "painting"

5 min searching

1 min sketch

Reworking my Mermaid Painting

I am reworking her features and after a couple days of struggling, it's going well again. Here is how she's changed over the weekend. I am sure learning a lot! 

This is the most recent pic of my progress. I'm pretty sure the left eye is too far to the left. Sigh. Leaving it until it bothers me more. Now I'm adding the green background in the hair so her hair isn't so ..."thud". It's gotta float in the sea! The tips of her fingers still need to be drawn (her hand wraps around the canvas). I'll probably add a little more color to her mouth. She had two teeth showing with a gap between them so hopefully I can capture that.  Her neck and ear are two people and it shows dang why did I combine poses whyyyy?!? 

Mouth is too far down here doh! 

Finally got the right eye angle. So difficult to comprehend what's going on there. Go me fir trying! 

"Walmart called, your pictures are ready"! Bahahaha