I am now taking my love of portrait drawing a step further by painting portraits with oil paint! For our last painting project at North Greenville we got to work on painting each other! It was a lot of fun. I was curious to see how I would be able to paint people, as well as draw them. We started out by doing a sort of “underpainting” where we covered the entire canvas with a dark brown tone and wiped away the highlights. You can see what it looked like in the one I did of my classmate at the bottom. For our out of class project we did a 3/4 view of our sitter, and so I chose to paint my brother. He sat very patiently as he read a book. 😉
Out of class project
In class project
Postles Lodge 
Very nice Estelle….Good for Johannes sitting so still for so long!
Thanks! Yes, I’m rather impressed by his performance. He got really into his book which was a good thing. haha.
That’s neat! I totally want to try this sometime. 🙂
Yes, you definitely should! I’m supposed to get my iPad this week actually, so we should skype and I can tell you how to do some things soon! 😀 So exciting! Can’t wait to see more of your work!!
Dear Estelle,
I like them – both. Gail Eiloart