Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Stages Of Work In Process - Artist: RobBob


I love this little gif because it shows how the artist was able to maintain the same structural form of the face after he began adding paint over his charcoal drawing. The charcoal drawing beneath established the architecture of the face (emphasizing plane changes) which allowed the artist to then lay colors of the appropriate temperature, value and hue on those established facial planes to reinforce the sense of space and form as he painted.

Stages Of Work In Progress - Artist: Stephen



Here is a little gif that I made to show two progressive stages of a painting. There can be a long developmental process in a painting and working up layers of paint and interweaving brush strokes help to create form and a nice variety of edges, ranging from those that are hard and crisp to those that are lost and become undetectable in transitions from one color to another. This painting is developing a nice range of edges, especially the blurred edge on the back of the head where the hair is about to meet the neck.



John Models With A Smoothie


The other day, our model was a little late so John threw a stool up on the counter with a warm bright light beneath it and modeled for us while he had his lunch. This is the kind of stuff that makes his class so fun and worth attending. John is great at improvising and the unexpected elements always make for great paintings.

Work In Progress