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Sunday, March 25, 2018

Portraits from the drawing group


My art guild has a Saturday morning figure drawing "class" -- it's not a class, there's no instructor. We begin with 5, then 10 minute poses which I usually do on newsprint paper. After that are two 15 minute poses which I do on charcoal drawing paper and finally three 25 minute poses which I either do in charcoal or in watercolor. When I do the watercolors I do not draw, but just used the color to block in the areas of color and value. Here's a selection from last week.

Sunday, March 4, 2018

The latest


As March enters, I am hoping to do much more plein air painting when it warms up a bit. The latest paintings are the little portrait I did in watercolor of one of the folks at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, David Brose, the historian and banjo player and singer/composer at JCCFS. I also did a nocturne of a street in Dixon, Illinois. One of the pictures, with the green ribbon, was the painting I had in a show in Dixon at the Nest Picture Show Gallery....the doorway of the building next door to the gallery. Despite the local connection, nobody bought it......which seems to be the norm now --- put your paintings in a show and hope you get an award because no one is going to buy it. Finally there's a picture of me with my entry in the Skokie Art Guild spring show, Nature's Palette. I managed a first place with this painting and will receive something in the mail....a card with some money on it. Will this painting sell? Stay tuned, although judging by past experience something tell me "NO".