Recent sketch works

FINAL WEEK!!

IT HAS BEEN SOME CRAZY WEEKS FOLKS :D
MOnday is my last day of this semester, looking forward to it!

Self portrait unfinished




Female nude




Pastel of Madonna & Child





Scott Noel at PAFA student gallery

Thanksgiving post--Recent work

Finally have some time to sit down and post some recent works, most of them are final projects still being worked on.

5 MORE WEEKS TO GO

This week isn't such a great week for me; I've been trying to take it easy because some back pain. The weather is getting chilling now, I am looking forward to the next summer. A couple of things that I am working on as class projects----

Portrait





Life Painting Of Tree Figures




Tim

Works from recent weeks

Weeks have gone by so fast. Philadelphia started raining these days, it's kind of frustrating especially when I am so excited of going on my first HAY RIDE tomorrow. If it cancels I would have to stay for the figure drawing, which is what I was suppose to do anyway :0
Finally have some works for the blog, more to come :D

2nd Self portrait



Nude female 1



Nude male



Torso




Two nudes





Young female





Final pastel




Nude female




After the rain

Recent work

These are all recent paintings or drawings from the last few weeks at PAFA.

PAFA WK-3 MORE UNFINISHED OILS

PORTRAIT CLASS WITH SYDNEY GOODMAN


Sydney's class is a intense class-almost as intense as Scott Noel's class. The moment we walk in the class room on Monday morning there is no way out until the end of it. The model I chose for the past two weeks was this guy with cool mustache and healthy red glow on his face. I see red, orange and green as the three biggest elements for his skin tone and shadow. Lying out the ground image is a big of tricky because I always get to the facial or clothing details too early too soon and that's a big taboo in building up a total composition and value contrast. Must slow down-I tell myself that more often now :D





FIGURE COMPOSITION WITH DOUG MARTENSSON

Doug is very particular with the structure of the painting composition. The class is all about figuring out a great, working composition that not only evokes the purpose but also incorporate a strong sense of aesthetic beauty. To me it's really about "what" and "how". knowing what the painting is created to present and trying to arrange the subject element around so that the purpose is strong and clear-that takes some hard core cropping and creative mind. My weakest link is composition and color contrast, so I have been doing stuff with those two in mind.






FRIDAY NIGHT FIGURE DRAWING

Again nobody but Della and I were there to draw. We were so tired we didn't use any set-ups. For about one hour we just sat across and drew each other. I really enjoyed that, just drawing for myself..

SELFPORTRAIT AND CHARCOALS

My first oil self-portrait　
This is a 3 week assignment,think if I do one each week my 3rd one will end up looking much better than this one. My classmate made some suggetions to the forehead highlight and the high light on my chin, which one is not enough and the ladder is too bright.



These are 10 and 15 minutes sketch on Friday night. Too bad only 2 people showed up but we had a great time drawing eachother :D

lady Bird


lady Della

PAFA week 2- Anatomy and oil sketch

Anatomy excersise













Life painting excersise













Open studio (week1 of 3)
This one has two more weeks left. While painting the figure I had tell myself to drop some of the details and focus on general values, it's hard when your eys and brain kept telling you more than you need.