Oil painting studies

'Indicate don't duplicate' is my mission for 2016 and second year of Watts Atelier! Well, that among everything else. I plan to focus on cleaner, better designed gesture. By feeling through the pose and not getting hung up on what its surface looks like exactly, one has got a shot at improving form and rhythm through indication. Curvy contours are quick to seduce, just like all the little details of fur, or subtle nuances in a face. I'm still striving to ignore them and "see less" as Richard…

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"Bob" portrait painting demo. 12"x16", oil on canvas board.

The Cigarette Girl

Artzoom on Instagram: “Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew, 1868-1925).”

In a matter of minutes, the piece is radically transformed.

woman with parasol, face filled in and unidentifiable, oil painting, dark impression, graceful painting, Claude Monet