Head Shape Study

Posted this on facebook yesterday....always a great place to meet friends and have a good conversation:

"I am going to have to unfriend you Thomas if you continue to send me your low quality portraits of dead stars i do not want to look out. They disgust me"

Thanks for your honesty! For this portrait course i am supposed to paint over 30 heads in this simplified way. Probably only few true friends will be left afterwards. Fine, let's do it!

Guided Tour

30 cm x 25 cm, Oil

Virtual Art Academy - Portraiture Course 1

I have enrolled the Virtual Art Academy and work myself through the Portraiture Sections. A key aspect is to get an understanding of the planes of the head and in there is plenty of material and assignments to learn that.

Some of my first approaches...   

Fruitlets

30 cm x 30 cm, Oil

Wet Final

40 cm x 50 cm, Oil

In Our Crowfeet

40 cm x 30 cm, Oil

Oh Buoy

30 cm x 30 cm, Oil

My first pleinair in 2016. Sunny, but still a little cold.

Near Otterstadt:

Neighbors Never Know

40 cm x 30 cm, Oil

Freeman

40 cm x 40 cm, Oil

Vorderpfalz 1

40 cm x 40 cm, Oil

Morning Promisses

40 cm x 50 cm, Oil

Daily Beauty Contest

Form Study

Foci competing in the rain

40 cm x 70 cm, Oil

Kisses

30 cm x 30 cm, Oil

Mainstream Blues

40 cm x 40 cm, Oil

Kaiserring 2

40 cm x 40 cm, Oil

Hauptbahnhof

40 cm x 40 cm, Oil

Neckarstadt

60 cm x 60 cm, Oil

Opening of a Lie

A4, Oil

Stopped counting plus two

A runner sees a painter ... Doing a blockstudy
"Midst this beautiful environment - what the hell are you doing???"
I'm training.
Runner shakes his head and moves on.

Bernard

40 cm x 50 cm, Oil

Water Lilies 3

30 cm x 30 cm, Oil

Quick Snack

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil

Ice on our Lake

25 cm x 25 cm, Oil

Creeksquare

60 cm x 60 cm, Oil

If is was Winter

22.5 cm x 30 cm, Oil

Allied Biodevices

30 cm x 20 cm, Oil

Pimple and Butt

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil

Drug, Power and Love

20 cm x 50 cm, Oil