Bugging out

 T weedle dee, tweedle beetle


Sitting 1



Sitting 2

This is my first painting for (guess) painting class this year! It's 20x28" (I think), oil on canvas.
Still in progress. We showed up to class that morning and the professor announced we were not doing the model painting as planned, and basically we were to forge ahead on whatever we wanted.
 I had nothing prepared, so I just grabbed my sketchbook and started this painting, essentially based on a doodle (You may recognize this beetle character-thing from earlier works).

I really don't mind it. It's kind of funky. I'm afraid I'm loosing the lightness and looseness though that it had at the start, which is a common issue for me when it comes to painting. It's a very spontaneous sort of thing, though, so I'll just keep working on the little guy and see where we go. I'll scan that sketch later.

Gulping Guppies

2008

T he first class, we were assigned to re-do an older drawing that we didn't like.

I generally hate really by-the-book assignments like this, but what can you do.

I picked the above one, which I'd given to a friend, which I didn't like so much... it's just kind of quick. I liked the nosey, mouthy premise, though, and did a more compositionally resolved and refined drawing of it.

life paintin'

A s usual, we began the semester with painting from the model. I decided to go with acrylic (a medium I haven't life painted with since grade 10), it turned out alright
(Although the woman looks kind of manly). We used the full 3.5 hours to paint the same pose, and if I'd had more time I would have tried to refine things like her hands and feet a lot more... the canvas is 20x28" or something, so I had to move fairly quickly.
Overall, a nice little warm-up.

Make it FUNKY....

T his is from the end of last year... I forgot to document it before now!

Mr. Funky is part of my 'pickled' series.

Hello!

Back in MTL!
........ and back to productivity.

We made some lovely paper flowers and hung them around the apartment :)