Bookmarks

At the end of Aug I will have a tent at a local fine arts and crafts outdoor show. To prepare for it I have been painting bookmarks. I hope to have about 100 ready for sale by then so it means painting about 5 a day. I am finding that I'm enjoying doing them but I have to learn to make them simpler. Spending half an hour to an hour on each one is not going to be economically smart. :) These are the ones I have completed so far.

Nude Male finished

I'm finally finished this one. Now I just have to decide on a title. I'll mat it and frame it later tonight.

Nude step 8

This morning I continued with adding more glazes of colour and darkening the values some more. I also added more dark to the whole background. Now my signature isn't as stark white. I only have a couple more hours to do on this and it will be done.

nude step 7

I did this step last night but had to wait until this morning to get a good photo. It still seems redder than in real life.

I continued adding colour and darkening values all over the painting. I also took the masking fluid off my signature. I knew it was going to be too dark to sign when I started it so I wrote my signature in masking fluid. That kept it white and now when I finish the background it will blend in more.

Nude step 6

I did some more work on values and a lot of detail on the ear.

nude step 5

I have continued working around the whole painting darkening values and checking that it is anatomically correct.

Canoes - a quick painting

I did this quick painting while at our art club's open studio yesterday. It isn't my usual style and and I am not very happy with it but it will look OK on a card or small print. :) The photo here is darker than the original. The reference photo is from "jab" on the artist's website "Wetcanvas".