stil working...

so I was able to spend several hours on this today...no where near finished..although it may look so much better than the last post, you may think so...I still need to do a lot of tweaking..i need to let the water dry a bit so I can come back in..hard to do that wet in wet..values need to be tended to..if you can tell..the little girl's dress is too dark on top..you just can't see these things while you're in the thick of it..so a photo always helps..lots more to do..stay tuned!...

A good start...

ok..so this is the first painting in a two or three piece commission (depending..)...above is the reference photo....first of all, i needed to close the space between the two girls to fit the size of the canvas...you can see I have an orange under-painting here and there..I like to do that to let a bit of the orange show through to give some harmony to the piece...I've just begun to put in the skin tones..mostly the shadowed part..tomorrow I hope to get a bit further...stay tuned...

babe on the beach

11x14 oil canvas

this is a larger version of a little 6x6 i did a year of so ago...this could maybe by anybody's little beach baby, don't you think?...we are celebrating the hoosiers' victory over VCU last night...felt like we were the underdogs the whole game!...what a thrill for those guys!!!