22nd march...portraits

 Thursdays portrait class. We had a wonderfully colourful and lively model. I enjoyed the sketchy approach combined with blocks of colour.

 A new painting of Theo...not quite finished yet. I'm going to have to redo those dreadlocks I think.

8th March 2014

 Last Tuesday's life class. Poor abbey looks as if she's falling asleep!

 Thursday's portrait class.

 This is a painting that I did of Amy many months ago...but I decided to play around with gold paint in the background. It was effective in places, but I think I need to apply gold leaf to make it really work.

 This painting glows with the thin sienna colours that I left from the initial sketching out stage.

 I was able to go back and finish off this painting of Theo, mostly by filling in the vivid red background.

2nd March 2014

 Rachel. I loved the yellowy greens in the jumper because they teamed up so beautifully with burnt sienna and even magenta.

In this painting of Lucy I liked the patterned dress, but it seemed rather 'fussy'....so I glazed over parts of it with magenta, and the effect was lovely.

I was struggling with all the grass and background in this picture, until I took a quick peak at Andrew James's paintings and I started to break it up into chunks.