Long time no see...

This morning, the model was Gustavo. I used to draw him so many time when I was in college. But now maybe 1-2 times a year. My hand didn't remember his figure at all, so only a few sketches look decent... But he is always my muse, I got some idea for drawing pose using him. He's always give me good inspirations, and the right corner one if the thumbnail of it. :D
And afternoon, Colin took a picture of my red conte drawing telling me looks good. Actually I don't like it at all. It doesn't look like her and not enough realism there. Buy he usually tells me good work to the one I feel not good... I wonder... Anyway I should take a red chalk workshop next year.... DX

New model, Andre.

Today, there was a new male model to Bottom Line club. When I saw him first, I liked his figure and thought cool! But when he posed the very first pose, he sad a joke and it turned me off. It was just a small joke, I don't know why I lost interest that bad. Anyway, my screwed up rhythm was not back normal and I made a lot of wrong decisions...  Well, there is also such a day!

New mugs and tea pot!

 Today I picked up my pottery works.

Wow, wow, wow! The hand build mugs turned out quite fun thing. Too bad, the handle of the little mug gut cracked, but it still do its job. The bigger mug, I put my dog, my hub, and my face. This becomes my favourite and will use this one from now on.

And the tea pot!!!! I wanted to make my own Chinese tea pot, so I threw 4 of them the other day. Unfortunately, one didn't survive from the bisque fire, and other 2 require some repairs. And this one is the one survived intact (not really, but just a minor crack at the handle. so I say intact!). I sued brown clay, so tea pt isn't perfectly white, but these works made me happy today.

portrait Grisaille

Here is the 2 hour sketch I did today in the Wednesday portrait at NVAC. Tried to be like grisaille and I used the technique I learned from Dan. Tonality is not good enough, but I think I caught a general idea. I had been skipping the Wednesday Portrait sessions, and today is the last day with this model... ort... Hope I can do complete monochromatic painting next time. XD

Clay challenge

After Dan's workshop, I couldn't resist my eager to copy the plane man cast to review the head anatomy lecture which Dan gave to us. I bought a 25lbs of clay and tried. I didn't bother to buy sculpture tools this time. But luckily, later Fernando showed u and lend me school's tool. I used cutting and modelling tool a bit, but I'm too beginner to know how to you the tools properly, and gave up the tools soon. My fingers works better, that's I thought. Ha-ha.  

And 4 hours later, I had a lot of fun playing with clay, but regretted a lot about not using a measuring tool.... It was still a good study, but no likeliness.... Ha, ha-ha-ha... ort
I'm thinking to try this again and next time with a measuring tool... XD

Dan Thompson's Palette

I took Dan's workshop last week. His way to paint was not the way I will do, but I learned a lot of things from him. 

Drawing stage; I really liked how he draw, no measurement, use surroundings to fix the lines. Object is a human, but draw shapes, not figure. Get gesture, and chisel/articulate the shapes. Find the light. 

And painting stage; paint BG first, don't worry about nailing the right colour, 'caz we can fix as we go, experiment the colour, put more on the canvas. Observe, apply colour and try again and again to make it better. I took a photo of Dan's palette.

First thing, the drawing is very important before the painting. And 2nd, choice of colour is totally up to you. I suffered mixing right colours for right place, but also I enjoyed making various colours, my painting is no longer monochrome world... :D