Head study

A two hour session, painted after arriving late, and missing all the best places to pitch an easel, I ended up at the side, and at some distance from the model, first time I tried a ground of cadmium orange and yellow ochre. I asked the model if he was a painter, after his  questions on technique etc "only model trains and stuff"...

Self portrait

This was a disaster after about an hour's painting, and I wiped it, but I couldn't leave the studio without trying to rescue it and get something that i was happy with, so i started again and worked this in about twenty minutes, I can't be sure but I think it looks a bit like me ...

Oil on canvas studies from the model

A two hour long portrait sitting; the first time with oils, a tentative start, hope to work bigger next time

Oil studies

Oil on canvas studies of a piece of flint, in the studio for hour long shifts over a couple of mornings, perhaps the colours have become a bit blue.

St ives school of Painting drop-in life drawing

A weeks holiday in St Ives and the opportunity to draw at the famous St Ives school of painting, just up the road from the former home of mariner and painter Alfred Wallis. A real work out of a class, all short  (ten minutes, fifteen minutes) dynamic poses, a great model, good atmosphere, with some amusing banter, and a cup of tea to boot, sorry about the shadows on the drawings...