Maintenance Man

Maintenance  Man

Woman

This is a quick effort at portraying a maintenance man. The spanner may be a bit of overkill.  The other is a really quick study of a woman. 

After -Street Scene

After- Street Scene

Following the last environment effort I wanted to have another go putting some of what I learned into practice.  This is based on O'Connell Street Dublin.  It did not take as long as the last one so that was a plus.  Built on a one point perspective I did a value study then painted over that.  The hardest thing with this was not to let it get too muddy. 

Utilities Sunset

Utilities Sunset

This is a landscape that I worked on for a while.  It started as a value study and then drifted from that into the final image.  I spent way longer on this than the final image might suggest.  I did try a lot of different things and at least identified alot of things that I need way more practice on. Will try another piece. 

After Repin A shy peasant

After Repin A Shy Peasant

This portrait by Repin appears with all sorts of hues on the web.  I don't know which version is closest to the true work as I have never seen it.  I copied one of the more vibrant copies.  I took about 6 h over this.  Most of that at lunch time.  The problem with the lunch time sessions is I work on a laptop in daylight so I still have to adjust value and hue at the end. 

Emu-Study

EMU-Study

A lunchtime sketch of an emu.  For practice took about 30 minutes.  The colour was deliberately muted.

Horseman Attacked - Final

Horseman attacked - Final

This is the continuation of the work started here. I added some more detail and refined the horseman.  All in all this took a while to do. The thing I liked most of this are the colours. I set out to limit those from the start. 

Horseman Attacked - draft

Horseman attacked draft

Horseman attacked draft 2

I decided to keep going with the personal work.  This one was a challenge as I wanted to get some decent poses.  I started with the the black and white draft then added colour.  I had a reference for the horses pose but the tigers I had to wing it.