I've decided to begin posting some of the paintings from the figure painting class that I took, taught by Phyllis Shafer. Phyllis is an amazing teacher, and I encourage anyone who has the opportunity to take her classes to take advantage and go for it.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic this class was taught entirely online, we used family members, photographs, and online figure art image sources to be our models. This format definitely had it's challenges, but Phyllis not only made our class function, she made it thrive. We were kept engaged, excited, given plenty of great personalized feedback and instruction. Make no mistake, we worked hard, so if you do sign up expect to put in the effort, but like most things you get out what you put in. Classes were Monday and Wednesday evenings at 6:00 pm, and I so looked forward to the Zoom classes, each student brought their own personal style, skills, and vision to share, such an inspiration. The online format meant that none of us saw what the other students were doing until class, It was so exciting to see the work and progress made from class to class.
Our first assignments were exercises in value by painting in grey scale, then adding temperature to get familiar with warm/ cool colors. My husband modeled for me for these first paintings, so I soon found out that I would need to use photos from then on unless he was asleep, or for quick sketches. These were just warmup exercises so I am not posting them, think I've destroyed them anyway.
This painting is using the limited Zorn palette; white, ivory black, yellow ochre, cad red medium. Being my first time trying it I was amazed at the wonderful rich skin tones and mixes I could squeeze out of such a limited palette. The model is from an online art model website where I could scroll through hundreds of images to find the one that inspired me for this project.
Hope you have enjoyed this post, I will post another next week. Please stay healthy and safe.
I've decided to begin posting some of the paintings from the figure painting class that I took, taught by Phyllis Shafer. Phyllis is an amazing teacher, and I encourage anyone who has the opportunity to take her classes to take advantage and go for it.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic this class was taught entirely online, we used family members, photographs, and online figure art image sources to be our models. This format definitely had it's challenges, but Phyllis not only made our class function, she made it thrive. We were kept engaged, excited, given plenty of great personalized feedback and instruction. Make no mistake, we worked hard, so if you do sign up expect to put in the effort, but like most things you get out what you put in. Classes were Monday and Wednesday evenings at 6:00 pm, and I so looked forward to the Zoom classes, each student brought their own personal style, skills, and vision to share, such an inspiration. The online format meant that none of us saw what the other students were doing until class, It was so exciting to see the work and progress made from class to class.
Our first assignments were exercises in value by painting in grey scale, then adding temperature to get familiar with warm/ cool colors. My husband modeled for me for these first paintings, so I soon found out that I would need to use photos from then on unless he was asleep, or for quick sketches. These were just warmup exercises so I am not posting them, think I've destroyed them anyway.
This painting is using the limited Zorn palette; white, ivory black, yellow ochre, cad red medium. Being my first time trying it I was amazed at the wonderful rich skin tones and mixes I could squeeze out of such a limited palette. The model is from an online art model website where I could scroll through hundreds of images to find the one that inspired me for this project.
Hope you have enjoyed this post, I will post another next week. Please stay healthy and safe.