Jen the redhead 9"x12" oil

In the poses that Jen has done for us in the past few months it seems like she has had her hair up or covered in some way so Friday when she arrived with her hair down I decided to just do a head study. So here is the result of two and a half hours worth of painting.  The last two Fridays I was so unhappy with what I painted that I came home and wiped them off.   I hate when that happens.

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Spring is in my studio 6"x6" oil

Adding other things to this composition just did not look right to me.   I wanted to keep this clean, simple composition.  The challenge here was to make the blue grayish background on the left  match in value to the flower petals in shadow.   It took a bit of tweaking.

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Good Day Sunshine 6"x6" oil

One of my students left these Daffodils and two days later they still look good so I painted them.   Thought I would make it a study in yellow.   Some of the small changes in yellow do not show up in the photo.   But I like it anyway.

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Souvenirs from Paris 6"x6" oil

These dice and playing cards came from a small game shop I came across while walking around Paris. The playing cards were so wonderful with their stylized illustrations of cats, it is my favorite deck.   I think I suffered from nit-pickitus today however it might have started yesterday.... my painting was so bad yesterday that the only thing to do was to wipe it off.

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Peasant Girl 9"x12" oil

Jen is wearing the under garments that she wore underneath her Russian costume  that I posted on Feb 11.   These two items were completley hidden.    I ended up painting tighter than I had planned.

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Ordering Sushi 6"x6" oil

For some reason it seems to be universal to get one of those sheets of paper to mark your order of sushi, sashimi and rolls when you go to a Japanese restaurent.   And of course there is always the little short pencil.

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Reading a thriller 6"x6" oil

It seems like in this day and age reading a book is the old fashion method of reading.   Personally I like to listen to audio books while I paint, cook, sew... you get the picture.   Currently listening to Donald E Westlake's "Money for nothing".   My favorite of his books are the Dortmunder series read by Michael Kramer.

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Seeing the sewing 6"x6" oil

The current garment I am working on in the evenings requires hours of hand sewing and I love it!  Doing this work and watching movies from netflix is one of my favorite things to do.

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Crossword puzzle 6"x6" oil

Working crossword puzzles was something my parents did all the time and when they were alive I worked them too.   My Dad was still good at knowing the older pat answers even in his last months of Alzheimers.   I worked them for a while but now that they are no longer around I don't seem to have the motivation.   I still love the idea of working it with someone else, the back and fourth.

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Journal writing 6"x6" oil

   

In this small journal I wrote about my trip to Provence that I took a few years ago.  The pen  was my mother's. 

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Charting a course 6"x6" oil

The denial of needing to wear glasses seems to be a common thing to do.  Finally after nearly two years of squinting I was on a photo shoot in Miami when I spotted this pair of glasses and I remember thinking that If I had to wear glasses this pair was going to be it.   They looked modern and actually cool!   Not my grandmothers glasses at all!  Now 20 years later my progressive bifocals are the first thing I put on and last thing I take off each day.   I feel I can't even think without them.

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The Thank-you note 6"x6" oil

I love this little thank you note.   Besides being simple and pretty the hand written message was warm and heart felt.   I have had it on my desk pushing it around here and there and just cannot put it away.  Painting it might allow me to let go.   I just happened to have some berries that look just like the ones on the note!     Coupled with my old fashioned calligraphy pen... voila la!

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Sudoku Puzzle 6"x6" oil

Working on a Sudoku puzzle is one of my favorite pastimes.   The one I like the most is called Gattai-5 which is 5 interlocking puzzles.   I try to work one of those every day at lunch.  

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Newspaper reading 6"x6" oil

I keep tightening up.   I tried to be loose and it just wouldn't happen no matter how much my head told me to.   I do like the shadow and glasses and simple palette.

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The better to see you my dear 6"x6" oil

Painted this on Tuesday and I totally forgot to post!   The shadows were varied from a warm grey to a cool grey but grey... dull grey.  I could paint it accurately with the right color value which would be a more academic traditional way but I chose to add color to make it more fun and visually interesting.

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Green taffeta dress 11"x14" oil

This green dress is woven with two colors, the warp is violet blue and the weft is lime green so the fabric takes on an iridescent quality and changes color as she moves.   It makes for fun painting, thank goodness she was holding still!  I have tried to keep the focus on the head and shoulders and trying to keep the rest loose and move the colors around the canvas.  

The three hour session goes way too fast and with the model breaks it is more like two and a half hours.   I had to keep from panicking at the end.

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