This week's painting in progress

I've lately been inspired by the great models posing in Joe Peller's evening painting class. The model this week has a Polynesian flair. She seems to enjoy posing for the class too. She's definitely getting into all the free wine available at our end of the year class parties. A happy model makes for a good painting, I always think.

Next month Joe will be holding an outdoor painting class in Central Park and I was lucky enough to get in! His classes are always crowded so this should be good.

I could kick myself though, I chose a 9x12 canvas and its way too small. I'm having to use Barbie brushes for the face. The face is about the size of my thumb. I'll have to buy Barbie brushes to finish it.

Exploring the red spectrum

Well I think I'll have to re adjust my goal to paint 5 days out of 7 rather than all 7. Right now I'm still enjoying trying to capture the shadows and reflected light off of the many red objects I've found in my kitchen. Who knew I was such a 'red' person?

I'm also going to give myself an hour on these. For this last one, I wanted to correct the reflections after 30 minutes and ran out of time.

I think this whole process is a work in progress.