Wednesday Night Portrait

I also belong to another figure drawing group that meets on Wednesday night. This painting was from last week. This group is different in that the poses are shorter. We start with a series of 1 or 2 minute poses and work up to longer ones, generally not longer than 20 minutes. I will draw the shorter poses in pencil and then switch to watercolour for the longer ones, although I have been trying to work on my drawing more lately.

Tuesday Night Portrait

You win some, you lose some!

This is from last week's session; I've done better.

It is interesting that some look good at the time you are doing them and some don't and then when you look back at them, it is often the reverse.

Portrait

This is another portrait painted at my regular Tuesday evening session.

As I was just starting out to draw the figure I noticed how the line of the shirt front (where it buttons) makes a nice subtle curve which starts at the top of the head and follows down the neck and down the shirt.

This forms a good gesture line for the portrait.

Here is my latest painting from a regular Tuesday night figure group.

Back Again!

This time I hope on a more regular basis.

This image is a painting that I submitted for the Toronto Watercolour Society Spring Show in 2009. It won an Honorable Mention in that show as well as being the third runner up in the Viewer's Choice Award.

It is, as I like to paint, a portrait in watercolour. The face takes up almost the full space of the paper (a half-sheet - 15 inches by 22 inches). I like to compose a painting in this way, so that the face takes up all the space, forcing you to notice our confront the subject.

Back!

Well, I'm back. However, in the process of having one computer repaired I have lost some software so I have to struggle with other ways of getting my images up here.

This is another figure painting from my weekly session. It does have a nice quality, but the paper which I bought on sale has some inconsistant sizing so some areas of the painting react more like blotting paper than watercolour paper and others have an unpleasent texture.

Again this was another painting where I got to a point when I felt I should do more, but didn't know what, so I stopped.

I cannot remember who said it but another watercolourist said, "If you don't know what to do next, you're probably finished."

Computer troubles!

I am sorry that I have been unable to post for a while, but the computer I have been using has to be fixed and I am still waiting to get that done. I will be back as soon as that is taken care of. Soon I hope!