Charcoal Portrait 2

Charcoal Portrait

Grumpy old men are my specialty.

Charcoal Life Portrait

Still Life Paintings + Process

Top: 6x8"
Bottom: 10x15"
Gouache on Cold-Press Watercolour paper

Wanted to avoid high saturation in these paintings as contrast with my other paintings, so I tried to make a setup mostly with "muddy" colours (resulted in really bad brush work just because I kept tweaking subtle colours). I got the structure and proportion of the beer bottle completely wrong so I hope Maureen isn't a beer drinker.


Setup:



Process:

Cowboy Life Drawings (last class before holidays)

Structure and I aren't the best of friends...