New painting in progress

"Joan of Arc"
- Charles Frederick Goldie (1870-1947).
The new painting to work with last week on my course with Sharon Tomlinson "Diary of Faces" www.allnorahsart.ning.com is "Joan of Arc" by Charles Frederick Goldie (1870-1947). Here is my effort, stage 1, my charcoal sketch. Terrified of those hands, heaven alone knows what they will be like when I paint them!

From a lesson by Jodie Ohl on "Life Book"

I really enjoyed this lesson on the "Life Book" course on Willowing (www.willowing.ning.com). The challenge was to word (mixed media) in mainly black and white. Although I am not entirely happy with the end result, I am not sure why....but a great learning experience and one I would love to try again with restricted colours.

Final painting

Found this hard to know when to stop but although there are lots of things not right, I am learning so much from this great course. (Sharon Tomlinson - Diary of Faces)

First layers of paint....several to go....

Week 2 "Diary of Faces"

This week's artist on the course is Nicolai Grigorescu and this is the beautiful painting Sharon has chosen for us to work on.

Here is my early preliminary charcoal sketch. I want to record a lot more stages as I work this time so I can really learn from what I am doing.

I can see her head is not tilted enough and it is bugging me but I might just try not to stress about it, after all it is only one of loads of things that aren't right!

Final double page spread....

...of my Georgette Chen page for the "Diary of Faces" course on All Norah's Art.

Diary of Faces - Week 1 - Finished painting

Well here she is. Not easy especially trying to get asian eyes which I did not manage and the shading was scarey but I know I have come on light years from my last attempts at painting a face in acrylics. So...this is my version of Georgette Chen, the Chinese post-impressionist painter. Thank you Sharon (Tomlinson) for your wonderful course.

My "Diary of Faces" Week one project....(2)

I am loving this course. Sharon has come up with such an enchanting idea for creating a real magic and story behind each face. Her teaching is great too. I am pretty much terrified of acrylics but I did what she said and just took it slowly. Here is my painting about half way through.