In the spirit of my Sunday art class, I decided to try a portrait tonight. The first one was painted from a 30 minute pose, from the model The second one was a 2 hour effort using a photo reference.Both with a very limited palette: one blue french ultramarine, one red, cad red light, and one yellow, cad yellow medium, and white. Such a great triad of colors. 10" x 16" on panel
Artist Statement
I like all areas of art, doing everything from portraits, figurative work, collage, monoprints, pastels, plein air painting, and Abstracts! It is great when things cross over from the abstract universe to the real world, a wonderful synthesis. Above all I am colorist and I believe in strong drawing skills at the basis of all my work.