WIP Wednesday - Georgetown Atelier

 Life drawing session...

 A bit of instructor draw-over adjustments...

 (The model had changed her head position at this point, so brand new face. But such a *beautiful* face!)

Working on compositions with this particular pose. Very good feedback (lots of reading of Andrew Loomis' "Creative Illustration"). Some new things to try! Yay for that!

WIP Wednesday - Georgetown Atelier

 New quarter - some new concepts (composition is now being covered. Yay).

Some lingering perspective discussion (ergh!!!)

 Examples and assignments...

 I spent the day working on composition and value studies - one based on the current model -

 - and some from outstanding projects hanging on my desk..

Now to get some time to actually *paint* some stuff...

Greg Manchess Workshop! - Day 2

Day #2 - and we're slaving away!

(We are few in number, and therefore get good one-on-one attention from slave-driver, Greg...)

Plus, demos!

And lectures, punctuated by many examples of many peoples' praise-worthy art,

and art techniques...

(with a slight interruption by a relatively brief power-outage. Who says workshops aren't full of surprises and excitement?)

The most exciting part however, is seeing how ones' own compositions can be pushed and strengthened even *further* by such a keen and experienced eye. Really inspiring to see!

Sadly, last day is tomorrow...

WIP Wednesday - homework -

Our latest composition assignment is to compose some abstract vignettes around some figure drawing...

I got more geometrical than I meant to, but it kind of just evolved... going to have to try and be more seriously abstract the next go around..

If you are interested, here are some awesome entries on vignetting via the Gurney Journey blog: see here, here and here...

WIP Wednesday - Composition Homework...

I've just started taking a part-time online course on Color & Composition from TAD (The Art Department) (offshoot of Massive Black and ComceptArt).  The homework thus far has consisted of more 'grown-up' design work than I've had to do for some time. Is stretching my brain!

This week's assignment was to design a poster for TAD....

After today's critiques I'm going to develop #4/the key further (add all the text and tonal info). Not a whole lot of time to take this to finish really, so simple is good!