Latest on the Picasso piece

OK, Here's my effort from yesterday. I was able to put about 5 hrs in on this. I mostly worked on the table and cahmpagne bucket. I did another layer of linework and hair too. I'm liking this one so far. It's been very fun.

New Brushes!

Well I got several new brushes last week. I got 4 at my favorite art store in Little Italy in San Diego and I won 2 auctions on ebay for a lot of 10 assorted mongoose hair brushes. I used them today and damn they make a huge difference. I have enough good brushes now to get me by for a while. Cheap brushes suck. I was so happy I finally bought some quality ones.

......and here is the begining of laying down some color. So far so good, I like this one more than any others that I've done. I'm starting to get the hang of the color mixing too.

New Painting

Here's a new sketch from last week. The assignment is to paint in the style of a master artist. I went with Picasso. Here's the linework on the canvas.

Blurry technique 2

Here's the second one..........

Blurry technique

This was from oil painting class a couple weeks ago. The teacher did a pretty interesting thing. He took a slide projector and forced it out of focus severly and had us all paint very quickly the blurred images. Basically just splashing color down. Then every 20 miin or so he'd sharpen the image a little until it was in focus. We did 2 paintings that day. It was very fun and pretty interesting to do. The idea being that it forced us to just look at shapes and colors and not get hung up on the little details.

Here's a couple images from my sketchbook. I've been kinda settling into this pen-scribbling thing. I'm not sure if it's me being lazy or if that's what I'm really into........

Here's the final painting

Here's the final painting. I didn't really finish the whole thing, it could use soem more layering but I'm pretty burnt out on it now. We had a critique and everything. I'm glad its done for class, I learned that I get bored with still life scenes.