Head Painting: Week 6

This week we started branching out to a fuller pallete.  The first painting was with black, white, cad red, yellow ochre, alizarin crimson, and cad yellow.  The second painting was with those same colors but also with some phthalo green and ultramarine blue.

We also finally did some paintings with COOL LIGHT!  I mean, I like warm light as much as the next guy, but for some reason cool light makes more instinctive sense to me-- it's easier.  And, consequently, these two paintings turned out be be my favorites!

Head Painting: Week 5

Recent news:  I had a piece accepted to BYU's Annual Figure Drawing Show! :)  I'm super excited about it because it's my last one before I graduate, and this makes three years in a row.  There are a TON of awesome pieces in the show so I highly recommend that you check it out.  It will be on the 4th floor of the HFAC from now through February 27 (I think).

Anyway, here is another painting!  I need to start getting to class earlier before the room fills up so I don't get stuck doing profiles every week.  But I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out.  Once again we were using the Zorn palette (black, white, cad red, and yellow ochre).  Also this model had some fun hair. :)

Head Painting: Week 4

This week we started using the "Zorn" palette which is: white, black, a warm red, and yellow ochre.  Thankfully it wasn't as tricky as I thought it would be to get the shadows to look cool with such a warm palette.

The first painting I did this week did NOT turn out.  As Brother Barrett said-- all the problems originated from not getting my drawing (the proportions and features of the face) right before I kept going.  Oh well! That's called learning I guess.  And thankfully the next painting (the one below) was much better in my opinion.

Pretty cool to think that his "blue" shirt is actually just black and white mixed together!  Good ol' relativity. :)

Head Painting: Week 3

This week in painting we actually had some male models! That's always a fun change of pace.  I did them in pretty different styles-- I'm still trying to figure out what I like and what works best for me.

For this one I tried to keep the shadow side really simple and do all the modeling in the light.  Basically I was trying to turn my painting into a figure drawing as much as possible. :)