More heads!!

So this class got WAY more fun!!!!  Look at them!!!!

Well... if you wanna.  :)

Name this man!

A personal fav.

(name this actor!!)

(neice)

(nephew)

(my mama!)

(Daddio)

(guess who....)

IN CLASS Head Models

In class we have 3 hours and I paint much larger.  

 I know.  His hat-hair was awesome.  And his sunburn.

Head Painting at Home!

So we have to paint FOURTY EIGHT, yes 48, practically 100 (feels like it), heads OUTSIDE of class as homework.  Yes yes yes it's good for me.  Worth it.  Valuable.  All those words that mean good for me.  But... seriously.  48!  That's 96 hours!  

So here's a handful of the paintings I've done with the help of many friends who were kind enough to come sit and watch a movie while I painted them in my living room!  Yeah they're pretty awesome.  Thanks friends!!!

(below) Denise comes to paint with me almost every time.  It's much easier with a painting buddy.  Thanks Denise!  She's getting quite good.

Starting to GET it!!

These are the last two days of in class model paintings.  Amy gave us a demo the time before these, and I think it reeeally helped.  Look look!!  They look like people!  First one has jaundis.  Poor guy.  His name was Boris.  Today we painted Ryan!  He's looking much more healthy.  ;)

Painting the HUMAN HEAD

Fall Semester has begun!  Ah my lovely "Painting the Human Head" class.  That's what I love to do on a rainy day.  Paint human heads.  Lots of them.  Oh GOOD THING because looks like Amy, our teacher, wants us to paint 48 heads outside of class by the end of the semester.

Oh... sorry let me make sure you understand.  FOURTY EIGHT HEADS.  In ONE semester!  OUTSIDE of class.  Did I mention we are spending TWO HOURS on each of them?

If I can't paint an amazing portrait by the end of this semester, well... you just don't wanna know what's gonna happen.  ;)

This should be good!  Truly though, this is really good for me!  And... maybe by the end I really will love to paint heads.  ;)

So these are done IN CLASS from a live model:

And these are a few of my outside class 2 hours paintings:

(painted from PHOTO reference... not as good as you can tell... live models are much better)