Norah

12×9 Oils on canvas, painted from life

Day 9 of a 30 Day Painting Challenge: Norah, painted from a live model at this week’s Figurative Artists Atelier, an uninstructed open studio with a live model. Typically we have 5 one-minute warm-up sketches, and 2 5-minute warm-up sketches, and then we launch into a single pose for the remainder of the 3-hour session, in 20-minute segments with 5-10 minute breaks between the segments, to allow the model to regain circulation and ease any tension from the pose. I really liked this model’s attitude and haughty expression.

Look into my creative process in the related blog post »