Jim

I often subject my good friend James to being sketched. The one I did yesterday evening at his get together is one of my favorites. It was a really fun time, as always.

Princeton portrait

We had a wonderful model today! The pastel was very slow going and it was looking very iffy until the last half hour. Afterwards, a group of us had lunch at a fellow artist's house and then drove to Peterborough, NH to the Sharon Arts Center. There's a members' show on exhibit there. I picked up an application and am thinking of applying for juried membership.

Lindsay

This morning instead of getting the house ready for a relative's visit, I once again joined the Princeton portrait group. Our model was a charming and beautiful college student from Worcester. This session was a treat for myself after three days of renovating my living room staircase. Unlike last week, this portrait was about life sized, and I gave it away to the model.

The medium is sepia and black charcoal on beige Mi-Teintes paper.

Princeton portrait group

This morning I joined a portrait drawing group that meets in Princeton once a week. Everyone was so friendly and it was such good practice that I am looking forward to going back. It's been a long time since I've worked life sized and I really struggled for the first hour or so. I finally reverted back to my habit of working in miniature. This willow charcoal sketch is only about 4" high. The paper is the back of a BOKX 109 restaurant menu.

Waiting room sketches

I found myself with nothing to do while waiting for a doctor's appointment, so I used the back of my copayment receipt to do some pen & ink sketches of the people around me. The woman with the glasses had a big old fashioned hairdo which I was unable to capture. She was moving her head a lot so I had a few false starts.

Oil painting commission

I I finished this oil commission just in time for the holidays. It's 22"x28" and shows a beach on Cape Cod.

Long Island, Maine

4x4 oil on canvas. The inspiration for this painting was a photo that I took a few years ago. It was September and the goldenrod was in bloom all over the island. Working on this was a great way to escape a dreary winter day- even if only for a little while.