This Christmas break, I’ve been doing more sketching to improve my skills. I’m trying to make each single piece tell more of a story and I’m also working on more…
Great exhibition at the NY Met Museum last month – Singer Sargent and Friends. Not that I’m paint more, I learn much more from seeing original works up close. It…
I finished my watercolor portrait workshop with Hamid at Gage Academy this past week, but I still wanted to learn more, so I checked out Scott Waddell‘s Art of the Painting video. It’s great!…
Drawing a collie with pencil and studying heads and faces from different perspectives.
I had a breakthrough in painting this week, mixing more colors and getting more of a sense of the brush. There are still things I struggled with, but this was…
Just finished this gouache study today. Based on a National Geographic photograph of a Mali woman.
I’m on break for another week and have had the chance to experiment with gouache. Gouache is an opaque watercolor paint. I’m finding it to be a more natural medium…
This week, we had an assignment to critique a professional photomontage. A classmate shared collagework from John Stezaker and I discovered Stezaker’s Mask series. From an interview: “They seem somehow more…