Painting II

Two more paintings...

This lady still needs work, but I am happy with how she has progressed. 

Basquiat's Notebooks at the Brooklyn Museum

BROOKLYN MUSEUM
BASQUIAT: THE UNKNOWN NOTEBOOKS
APRIL 3- AUGUST 23, 2015

UNTITLED NOTEBOOK
1980-1981
Ink marker, wax crayon, and ink on ruled notebook paper

FAMOUS NEGRO ATHLETES
1981
Oilstick on paper

FAMOUS
1982
Acrylic and Xerox collage on canvas mounted on wood 

UNTITLED
(CRAYON DRAWINGS)
1982

UNTITLED
1985
Xerox collage on wood box

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UNTITLED
1982-83
Oilstick, colored pencil, crayon, and gouache on paper
mounted on canvas

TUXEDO
1982
Silkscreen on canvas

UNTITLED (CROWN)
1982
Acrylic, ink, and paper collage on paper

UNTITLED (INK DRAWINGS)
1981
Sumi ink on paper

My souvenirs

Painting II

This coming Saturday will be my last Painting II session at Parsons Continuing Ed Program. My instructor, Margaret, is a wonderful and kind teacher who is so knowledgable about Venetian oil
painting methods.  This is the third painting class I've taken with her (one of them was a two week intensive class in Italy. I'll tell you more about that soon), and each time I come away with a better understanding of this method and I feel like I grow in my process. You can visit her website here.

Our last class will be a celebration of our work and progress, with presentations and talks. Here are two of the paintings I will be presenting with a glimpse of the process.

Notebook sketches

Composition

Drawing with a bit of shading

Cartoon/transfer

Transfer on board covered in linen and home-made gesso

Underpainting in naples yellow and terre verte

Indigo blue, chromatic greys.
Almost done. Just need to work on that spoon on the right.

AND REPEAT