August 18, 2011

    This is a terrible photo (for instance the gesso should definately be white and I have weird shadowing), but it serves the purpose... 
    Day one of Passing Lane. 

July 2, 2011

    I spent my available sketch time today painting on a portrait. I should be able to post it as my sketch a day (especially since I am doing the face portion a la grisaille which ties in with sketching in a black and white and grey sort of way, don't you think?), but I have decided against posting it in all of the in-between stages since the subject peeks at this blog! That means I'm only going to post this tiny section, which I think keeps within both the spirit and the letter of sketch a dayness, but without revealing too much of the portrait plan too soon... 
    This is oil paint, by the way, thinned a bit with linseed oil, and is shining because it is still wet and I took the photo this evening (so with flash) and very close rather than mess with cropping. I'll still be able to work this tomorrow morning.

May 27, 2011

    For my "sketch" today I worked some more on the grisaille under-painting. Unfortunately, I've left the cable I need (to hook the camera up to the computer) elsewhere and the other two options require some software I can't seem to find on this lame version of my once-upon-a-time (pre-Vundo) computer... so after spending an Insane amount of time looking for the software, I just scanned one corner of the under-painting to post. Yawn... night-night...