Lost but not forgotten

I haven't blogged in a long time, mainly because I was busy with work and life in general, but I never stop thinking about what I would share if I had time to actually sit down and share. So, here goes...what I've been up to.

This past semester, I took a course in Life Painting in Oils, below are some of the paintings I produced during this course. Comments and (gentle) criticisms welcome.

(posted from most recent)

costumed model

reclining nude

palette knife

fauvism style

nude

My baby boy....

This is a portrait of my youngest son when he was about 5-6 years old, sitting on a lawn chair by the lake at our cottage. He's 17 now but remains my "baby"...and he still has the same wonderful smile.

This is the first portrait I've ever painted. I started painting it in acrylics but found it to difficult to do the details in the face, so I finished it with water-based oil paints. It was a pleasure working in this medium because it was like working with oil-based paints, only without the smell and clean-up.