Couple older Hipbone sessions

 

The Learning from Masters channel has been popping up on YouTube with some artists I didnt know. This was a copy of a Dagnan-Bouveret (what is she trying to tell us?).

 More older stuff, hope I'm not repeating:

 And back to recent, cuz its no use fighting blogger's order :

 This one musician Marika Hackman -the yellowing and mid-key somewhat intended

 From a Japanese Garden trip in Oct. to get the maples turning -with 500 other people. Its more or less done.

 Hattie Monahan- no her eyes really do that

November

Aw November, when I'm again reminded why the sycamore is named for its leaves. And its little goddam spiky seed ball things that fall by the thousands.

 Saskia Reeves

Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson

Master copies -Charles Chaplain [French?], DaVinci and Nelson Shanks

Stuff from Hipbone Studio. The first was done without white; got a notion to just pull back to the canvas with rags and q-tips. Wouldn't do it again, but an interesting experiment.

head studies -this first photo off the web had amazing color on my tablet, which is all I paint from  now. She's somewhere between 8 and 20 y.o.- couldn't figure

 the duuud

 older one, also web pic

 three live figures -the first 2 same model same pose (not that you'd know) plus an older one

 Kathryn Stats copy

 the band Now,Now (which seems to be defunct sadly)

 VerMeer copy -new on the left; 70's high school piece on the right which hadn't aged well [cheap linseed oil]

head studies

Hipbone live sessions -the first a couple years ago with some brushwork I liked; the latter recent but a little weak in the face

Got lots of time now so I'll try to get this backfilled and up to date. 

From my photo south of Mt Hood:  

 From a WetCanvas user photo -these are conkers [horse chestnuts I think]. 24X18 and kind of finicky but it was an amazing picture.

 Copy of a Nelson Shanks from a few years ago

 A  couple from live sessions at Hipbone Studio [Portland] from  last month and '11 (respec.). Work had me too tired to manage this more than once a year -now that I'm at liberty I hope to get  back in the groove with this. The lower one had a hatching stroke I'd like to revisit, the recent more fat-brush.
 [It would seem the layout tools here are still their fine standard of WYSIwasn't]

a Hipbone Session from a couple months ago. A thick knee and withered hand, yet she bore them with such grace. Inspiration really.

some landscapes, my photos. This from Silver Falls park that I liked

this an updated repost. Can't believe I've messed with this for a year now.

and this problem child of Hoyt Arboretum. The left upper was just gray fuzz in the reference which has evolved into an imagined whatever after four sessions. Some nice bits but I can't pull it together.

Various portrait studies -this of Mongolian girls from Google images.

Like this one but have trouble getting an accurate color photo

And a second in that exercise in humility that is the Frazetta copy. Maybe 15-20 hours. Between my handling and the photo it doesn't get how masterfully the slayer guy goes from mid tone neutrals at his boot up to high value intense color at his head/arm. Or how with little dots and dabs the wizard guy (the slayee) has this taunting manic grin. The tree doesn't make total sense but it has wonderful detail and works as one of the characters -wailing as it tries to shrug off its attackers. And he pulled this out of his head? So I've heard. I planned to get a book on him but found one on JC Leyendecker instead. A master copy from it is quite possible.

Frazetta hit his stride doing covers for 30 year old Conan novels. They sold like crazy which begat a comic book and ultimately movies. Starring a body builder which a thick accent who wanted to get into movies. Despite the accent he achieves fame in action movies which he parlays into becoming governor of 38 million people. Not saying I blame Frazetta exactly. OK for the movies, yeah I do.