Well, today we got a real live model, and you can’t tell from this how very beautiful she is! I’m in trouble all the time with my instructor (the brilliant Liz Wiltzen) because I gallop away in all directions, forgetting to measure and go slowly and methodically through the process. I’m like some of the boys in my grade 8 math class, who sat at the back, raced through their equations and got most of them wrong! And then I wonder why it doesn’t look like the model!
We only had 3 hours to paint Amy, and this isn’t finished, but it was really a lot of fun. Tomorrow? A different model, and we get all day with her. I intend to go slowly and carefully, meanwhile everybody in the class is betting I’ll the first one done again. DUH!
Wow, it looks like you have really learned a lot about portraiture. Well done , Gena! Your students will benefit from you being a student!