Tyrone--ASL Figure Painting: June 1 - 12

I've started attending a figure painting studio session at the Art Students League. My instructor, Mary Beth McKenzie, talks to us individually for a few minutes 2x per week. She is generous and insanely good at both painting and teaching, but the class format leaves me unsupervised longer than I'm used to and I've been screwing up my paintings a lot more now! These screw-ups are all good, necessary steps toward maturity, I think.

That's the pep talk I use to I cheer myself up and steel myself up for more of this!



Mary Beth persuaded me to give up on this one and start anew. Good advice.

So, same model, same pose:



I spent most of these 2 weeks mixing colors I never used. I learned how to make a lot of colors. GRAAAA!!!

This model's skin tone is made with viridian green + cadmium red, which yields a startlingly rich brown or purple, depending. I also learned to push around a rich color that starts with black + cadmium red + cadmium yellow. I think whatever that's called is going to be one of my new favorite colors.

oil on cotton duck canvas, both 16x20