This was the last project I painted from a workshop I did last week with my friend and fellow painter, Christina Cooper. It is great to work with other artists, incorporating their insights and knowledge with your own.
We did various exercises all week long and this 16" x 20" Life Study was the culmination of the weeks work. Pushing myself to work a bit larger than usual and concentrating more on simplification of form.
My hope is that revisiting these principals will reinforce and affect my paintings. I wish I could work with that intensity every week, God knows how my work would improve.
I also was able to work from one of my favorite models. I think I relate to her brunette hair and firey spirit. Oh to be that young and beautiful again.
Emotions are a part of what I bring to the table as a painter, sculptor, street painter- Knowledge, technique, discipline, all of that is part of it too, but I know what strikes me in my heart is what is important in the piece and drives the underlying expression.
16" x 20" Life Study in Oils on Canvas
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