painting 2 is finished

here's what I managed to accomplish this semester:

painted doodle

If you execute a doodle in oil on canvas rather than in watercolor on bristol does that elevate the status of the work?

I have my final critique in oil painting this Thursday. Overall I've come to enjoy the painting process. As for oil painting:
I hate the cost, acrylics are much cheaper, watercolors - even more so which is why I've mostly been doing watercolors
Oil dries VERY slowly allowing me to do blends days later
Oil dries VERY slowly making transportation of work to school a messy process
Cleaning up oils is messy

The bonus is that I'm more patient when glazing my ceramic pieces.

At this point,since I already have the paints, I'll continue to use them rather then let them dry up. Will I be an oil painter in 20 years? It's hard to say.

painted kid x 2

shameless self promtion

Painted the Kid

For oil painting class one of my pictures was open subject as long as it was from life. The kid suggested I paint him. Knowing he wouldn't sit all that still for all that long I banged this out in about an hour. He wanted the background to be black but it was too dark so I softened it to a gray.

I'm pleased with the result and so is he. This is his "serious" face. BTW, I've never painted a portrait before.

Skeleton Crew

I made these for Dia de los Muertos which was on Nov. 1

stacked monsters

These are made from a high fire (on bottom and bird) and low fire clay (red clay) as part of a Ceramics 4 project. We going to fire it a little higher than the lowfire clay likes to go in the hopes that it gets a bit melty. It should be interesting.

i'm working on some new doodles