Daily Painting

I caught the dazzling late afternoon light hitting Kabir's left side while he was putting on his shoes, and had to capture that. Here is the original photo I took, a value study, and two watercolors using different color schemes.

I went to Rockland, Maine, all of last week for a workshop with Charles Reid. It was surreal to see the master himself. We connected over a group dinner - I sat across from him, and told him about the Kuwait invasion and my childhood. I offered to share my story Brink with him - he said he would like to read it. Here are a couple [the best] of the 10 paintings I did. I will post the remainder soon. We had a full day of figures/portraits from two live models. Now I am obsessed with the shadow shapes I see on the faces of people, and in photographs. See next post for what I've been up to since I got back on Saturday.

I was inspired by Iain Stewart's style on his YouTube video/website, and wanted to paint that way - with layers. I used two photos of Scotland to create this scene. I used the background and the variety of buildings from one image, and two boats from the other, and played with values to create interest. This will also serve for the first assignment [theme: Reflections] in Jane Hofstetter's class this Wednesday. I like the cohesiveness that a limited color palette brings. I thought about the colors beforehand. I am not too pleased with the reflections - I winged it instead of really understanding how the buildings should/would be reflected. I did draw all the lines but painted haphazardly and irreverently. Overall, I still like this - and it is the limited colors that carry the painting through - and the looseness is perfect for me.