Figure studies at Gabriel's

There are 6 other still life studies from last term but I'm more interested in sharing the figure studies we are doing in this 8 week session. What a joy to be working from a model again! The first week we did drawings only- big loose gesture drawings and a few 20 min. poses.

The 2nd week Gabe encouraged us to paint small -5 x7 ish and concentrate on form, not detail.This first 50 minute pose I used a larger panel and wasn't too excited about the pose:

The second pose had more dramatic lighting and I chose to create a smaller format on my panel. I like the way I could then let part of the drawing creep out beyond the boundary but keep the painting inside.

No class next week but I'll keep you posted. I'm working on some of the unfinished earlier paintings as well.