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

Gold fish mug and creamer

I threw 4 little tea pots the other day. I found 3 survived from bisque fire, but 2 need some repair for their lids. I have no idea how many will be usable in the end... These are new mug and creamer. I put little gold fish at the bottom. I like it, so I'm gonna go with this gold fish theme for a while... :D

Prud'hon Study

Early Summer, I took a workshop to study Prud'hon. The male nude one is the one I did in the workshop. I learned how to stain the paper and what to use etc. Then I came home and tried by myself. I have some bits of watercolour papers, so I used one of them. And tried tried tried, push and pull, push and pull.... Then finally gave up. The paper I used was waaaaaay too rough for this exercise. I have very little patient to continue... XD

Friday come again...

There is a model, nothing wrong with her, but somehow I can't draw her... She was an afternoon model, so I can only share the works with morning model Dan and da sketch of Bottom Line leader David having his coffee... XD

Adam in a SF soldier costume

Wednesday morning portrait session. Adam is the model for 4 weeks from today. He's one of my favourite models in Ottawa,  who has a young (high teen?) male body feature. I like him posing.  Problem is my drawing, it's very graphic... I think I have to draw softly.