"Youngin' "

Come this head study, I learned quickly why it is so important to do some kind of painting or drawing everyday or close to it. I couldn’t get the features correct, it just wasn’t working. So I scraped it and started over. After that, it was a piece of cake. I realized that if I wasn’t working so hard to get these small studies done so often and just painting in class. There would be no opportunity to run into these problems and work through them until a time comes when it’s too late.

"Creeper Girl"

With my practice heads most the shadow sides of the faces have been cold with a warm light side. So for this one I had to search for a “vampire-like” face with a warm shadow/cold light side. Then learn to paint opposite of what I’m accustomed to so as to not get stuck in a rut. :)

"Emotion"

Working on emotion! This is so difficult, the position of any facial feature can change everything. :s These photos of the painting studies did not come out as well as I would've liked. The woman caught a huge reflection of light on the bridge of her nose and the man has flecks of light throughout the shadow area. Either way, the worn and beaten look came out pretty well on both. I struggled with the woman in looking down and not so much tired. The man I added tons of color and loved it!

For my birthday this weekend I received a 18' X 5' roll of canvas!!! More than I could've asked for, it'll last me a good while and I'll get a lot of practice gluing and streching my own canvas. :)