It's Been a While

Wow!  I can't believe that a month has gone by since my last post.  I was trying to add to my blogs on the weekends, but I just kind of forgot.  In the past month I have gone to a few life drawing sessions, on Tuesdays, plus a Thursday and a Sunday thrown in there.  I spent spring break in Olympia with Rainy.  I made an artist submission to the Herberger Theater Gallery, but I won't hear anything until the end of April.  Two days ago Mike and I celebrated our fifth anniversary.  I guess that a lot has happened in the past 30 days.

I won't try to post all of my March artwork, but will pick and choose what I think is worth showing.  This oil pastel painting is titled "35 Weeks".  It was done in 4, 20 minute drawing sessions on a Thursday night at Stu's studio.  I was working on a piece of all media board that I had previously collaged with torn magazine pieces.  I used copal medium to blend the oil pastels.  This is probably my favorite artwork from this month.  I enjoyed creating it.

This next piece is titled "Black & White".  It is charcoal on charcoal paper and is 18" x 24".  I drew this image on the 1st of March.  The face is probably the weakest part of the drawing...I really do struggle with profiles.  I should practice drawing profiles until I am more comfortable with them.  I do like the extreme contrast, with a portion of the paper in black and the opposing side in white.

This drawing is titled "Colors From Behind".  It is oil pastel on watercolor paper and is 18" x 24".  I painted this one on a Sunday morning, another long pose session at Clarke's studio in Tempe.  Again, I used copal medium for blending the oil pastels. I enjoyed the subtle texture of the watercolor paper and decided that I prefer working on it than on smooth paper when using the copal medium and the oil pastels.  The colors are very vibrant, which makes the painting more exciting than some of my other pieces.

The next two drawings were made this past Tuesday night.  The first one is titled "Different Point of View", the other one is "Figure in Blue".  These were both made during 20 minute poses, I just had to add a few finishing touches on them when I got home.  I did the blue one first, another person at the studio commented that it looked very Georgia O'Keeffe-like.  I didn't see it until I stepped back away from the drawing and then I thought that he was right.  For both of these drawings, I just wanted to crop in on the figure and I wanted to work with non-skin tones.  I was relatively happy with the way they both turned out.

I did not keep up with a collage a day, it was rather hit and miss.  I am presenting a few of them here.
I will try to blog once a week!  See you then