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 "JEWELRY WOMAN, OLD TOWN"

#113

 "THOUGHTS"

#112
SOLD

"AFTER SPRING RAIN"

#111

 "THE SCARF"

6x6"

#131
SOLD

My first figure painting of the Challenge.

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145 Challenge - Figures

FIGURES

The time has come and I don't think I'm ready.

Figures.

The one area where I feel a lack of mastery.

Mostly because I've always spent most of my artistic life painting 

landscapes, florals, churches, sunsets, pears, maybe a few animals, etc.

Leave the figures to the portrait artists and people who really like painting people.

Not me.

Figures are scary to me.

I would like to be be able to treat them just like a landscape,

blocking in shapes and shadows, not paying attention to the fact that there is 

a PERSON or PEOPLE in there and I have to make them look like

a PERSON or PEOPLE. 

NO! 

But I'm going to give it my best shot.

I am going to try to complete two figures a week for the 145 Challenge.

If they don't turn out, well, you probably won't be seeing them!

So bear with me while I experiment with painting people.

Oh, and I figured if I gave them titles, I would have to finish them!

"WAITING" 

This is a woman standing next to an outdoor flower shop.

I have painted this once before.

Maybe I can do better this time.

 "BEAUTY"

My first nude.

I'm a little scared.

Do I try to use Old Master techniques? Nah.

Do I try to be patient? Nah.

Do I just go for it and sling paint? YES!!

Even sketching is hard. 

I have art books on anatomy.

Do I want to use them? No.

Do I want to know every piece of sinew and bone in the human body? No.

I want my figures to have wonderful curves and lines.

To heck with structure.

 "THE JEWELRY SELLER"

This is a beautiful older woman straightening her jewelry 

under the portal at old Town.