This weeks life class.

Some recent life class studies . All are long poses lasting just over 2 hours, done with oil paint. The last portrait was finished with several more hours work at home.

The village people.

I started this painting just as practice portraits but as it progressed I started to like it as an actual painting. My wife and I visited Lymm in Cheshire one summers day this year. Lymm is a beautiful little village with a canal running through its center. The white lion pub is perfect for lunch as you can relax and watch the barges sailing past from the beer garden. A nice pint of beer and steak and chips are recommended. The characters in this painting are taken from photos I took around the village and all were oblivious to me taking the photos except my wife and my self portrait. I put a limit of 1.5 hours for each portrait although a couple did exceed this time restraint.

Pastels done today on toned paper taken from William Maughan's book.

todays life class and some more done on the old man

A couple of sketches. The old man in pencil and the young lady in charcoal.

Madame Suggia after Augustus John.
Oil on canvas 60mmx50mm

    

This weeks life class  Charcoal on paper

My first life class

The Tubist

I liked the relections in the tuba and the artifical light draped across his face. He was the tubist playing in the world orchestra at the Albert hall summer proms this year. Below are the 4 stages of the painting as it progressed
16x12 oil on board Sold

A monochrome oil sketch of a bust on paper

Susan

 24x18 inches oil on board,

A portrait of my darling wife. She is in her domain 'The Garden' where see loves to potter about and make her garden grow.

Peonies.

A painting by Charles Edward Perugini titled 'Peonies'. It was painted in 1887 and hangs in the Walker art gallery in Liverpool. The peonies are painted beautifully and thus I just wanted to paint the flowers ad the basket. So this is a copy of just the bottom section of the painting.I dont think I have done this beautiful painting any justice....