I did three studies today, including the Nude Study from my last post. Here’s the other two - and I did not spend more than an hour on each, if that long.

 

There was a woman painting the rest of the group as we all painted the model - in about 90 minutes she had done a finished oil sketch, maybe 30 x 30″ - I could recognize myself in her painting - it was quite good - though I feel she needs to take her work to the next level - but that’s for her to decide, not me.

Anyway, she took a catnap on the studio couch and I decided to paint her Palette - since her palette was the most interesting thing in the studio to me.  She kinda woke up after about 30 minutes and eventually wanted to use her palette, so I made this a quick study and decided to just abstract off it - thinking of Picasso while doing this - started with Oil Pastels and quickly used chalk over it, then spraying with fixative.

The last painting of the day, below, was another view of the studio - with the theme of “painting within a painting” that I started last week.  Only, you probably can’t tell because my treatment was loose and I got exhausted - but it was a good exhaustion.

I like this study - for all the looseness of it - there’s some color effects that happened - that I allowed to happen.

Again, I asked my self - what’s my commitment to these works?  Answer:  I don’t know.  I only know that it feels right to me doing as I am - where this all goes … I don’t know.