Wednesday is my day to oil paint in the life drawing studio. These are short poses, and so most folks there use charcoal, and some use pastels, as those media lend themselves to fast work. I like to take up the challenge of using oil paints though.
These sketches are all 18×24″, on canvas. The first two are each two short poses by the same model. I superimposed them over one another by painting one first, and then the other. This presented some interesting compositional ideas for my landscape work. Expect some experiments in the spring!
There are some stray lines on this first sketch because I did three others on this piece of canvas beforehand, and wiped it off just before this pose because I didn’t have time to get another piece of canvas and tone it before the model started! I guess I missed a few lines here and there on the wipe-out.
We all get spoiled with this fabulous model, Jean. There are lots of paintings of her here from the past several weeks. These are the last two from this morning, same size:












