On Sunday I began taking a class at Situ Art Academy in Covina. It’s only a 30 minute drive to and from DTLA / Koreatown where I live, and it’s well worth it. Before the class is an open studio, every Sunday from 2pm-5pm with a costumed model. I brought my Edge Pro Gear Sketchbook, however it was a bit small for my efforts. I painted on a 9x 12 panel, and couldn’t get my paint piles large enough to do enough mixing, so it came out quite dry. This would be solved with a larger palette. That’s a great excuse to get the larger setup for myself for Christmas 😉
In all of my paintings, I like to block in an idea of where the final product will end up, so I can understand the composition. This one is not what I’m used to, I like lower left to upper right compositions, but with the lighting and hair, I had to do the opposite.
You can see the struggle here! I’m trying to paint the face, then the hair, then the collar, and I’m trying to keep them to compare them, but it’s not possible to get much bigger piles on this little baby. Still the best for anything under 8″ though! I will try a smaller panel next time (or plop my larger palette on top :D) The open studio was great, there are a ton of master artists painting there, and I always enjoy seeing each person with their own view and depiction of a similar subject. There was such variety and I was lucky enough to sit behind two extremely creative guys who painted beautiful and exotic depictions of our gorgeous model. Looking forward to next week at Situ Art Academy!
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K.L. Britton 