More painting

A new one hour painting today, done in acrylics. I'm trying to work more efficiently with how I produce these pieces.

Portraits

Getting back to my roots and doing a good amount of portraits since I've been home. I love portraiture, and I hope to get better at it eventually. As of now, I have two portraits that I am willing to put up now.

 4 hours

5 hours

Painting

So this semester I have worked tremendously on learning how to use acrylics. I used to hate using acrylics because I didn't know how to mix colors very well (I convinced myself that I was color blind for a little while) and create interesting paintings, so this class was arguably the one class that I learned the most from. Here are some paintings that I feel show the most improvement in my adventure with acrylics.

 4 hour still life

 5 hour still life from earlier in the year

 1.5 hour plein air

 1.5 hour plein air

 3 hour still life study

2 hour plein air

Well...

Haven't thrown anything on here in a while, but there has been some progress recently. Here's a couple of pieces that I have done that I am not completely ashamed of 

 Tried to really get a full piece down while doing some digital stuff. This is what happens when I work on something for a couple of days. 

 Quick color study. 2 hours

Portrait study

back at ringling

 So now that I'm back and working harder than ever, I've realized that there has been a slight change in how I'm trying to grasp figures in general. I've recently been more inclined towards pen and ink in comparison to graphite. These recent figures are mostly done in pen and feel different in comparison to my others. Still, I'm hoping that I will continue to improve. 

So recently I've been getting into these blind contour drawings and they have been a lot of fun to try out. There will be a lot more of these in the future. 

more figures!

So today I went to the mall and enjoyed the fact that I had my sketchbook. This was a good way of practicing figures which still is not my strongest skill. Anyways, these are all quick 30 second to 10 minute figures done in my small sketchbook. Along with a small observational perspective piece.

figures....

More work with this tablet. I spent about an hour an a half working on this figure which began to look more like a child than anything. I need more practice.