I was able to end up with a very productive art day today despite all the errands I had to run. Plus I finished the satsuma painting.
Mr Rogers is coming around now. I spent an hour today just working on adding details through darker values. The change from last session and this session is tremendous.
I really like this painting even though it’s been months since I’ve used oil I was able to pull out a nice painting. It is a very simplistic subject, I chose it intentionally. After months of not using oil I didn’t want to start up again with a figure in oil, that might have been a disaster.
The normal 15 minute warm-up in graphite.
I really enjoy these extended gesture studies from the The Natural Way to Draw book. I’m beginning to marry the fluidity of gesture, the structure of form and the mechanical nature of measurement all into one drawing. Keeping a balance of everything is the key.
I drew Pattie sitting on a bench reading. My drawing is completely different from the actual photo but it’s what I remembered and I’m happy with it. The sketch today was from a stock photo and I decided to turn this guy into simple shapes. One of the predominant exercises in Steve Huston’s book.
I finished the satsuma painting and I was able to get a lot of art done.
When I try to fit so much into my day I get stressed especially at the end of the day with my post, this is effecting my sleep and I can’t have that.
Tomorrow I’ll have a full day but I’ll plan out some deep work time block and try and be really accurate with all the time that I have.
