This charcoal drawing is a negative space drawing of the forks on a bike I photographed with a reverse out of the tread pattern before it disappeared into shadow. Unfortunately, I didn’t really think out my composition all that well and the tread looks odd. This type of drawing is really challenging due to the […]

This is a homework assignment that really tested my understanding of both light and color and their effects on shadows and near objects, and on the use of acrylic paint as a medium. I really need more experience painting with acrylics! Every time I tried to correct flaws caused by trying to paint over insufficiently […]

This is a painting of fake fruit and a fake radish. It was a very challenging subject to paint because I had to fight the tendency to try to make the fake fruit look real. The class ended before I could finish, so I ended up trying to finish it with a picture of the setup taken with my cellphone. I […]

Our instructor in my acrylic painting class gave everyone a little cutout from a magazine picture for us to practice color matching. She told us not to worry about accuracy in the composition, but get the colors as close as possible. My colors are pretty close and I actually restarted the whole painting to get […]

This was my second try at a chromatic gray study for my painting class. I think it turned out okay. It’s better than the last one. I just really struggle with the fast drying of acrylic paints. I got spoiled painting with oils this past year. I began this painting two nights ago when we […]

This was my homework assignment in my painting class (not my oil painting class). We were supposed to paint anything we wanted using chromatic grays. I did not use black, but I think I need to try again tomorrow. The samples shown in class were very muted paintings with a limited value range. I really […]

8×10″ oil on panel I probably should go back and refine this class piece.  I spent about 2.5 hours on it.  I showed up to class and the instructor was surprised. He had not expected to have any students and was cleaning his studio. Apparently, I never hit SEND when responding to his inquiry the […]