The Finished Portrait

Part of my year in Fort Worth involves painting this little girl from Dallas.  The portrait is now finished and I will soon be delivering it to my client.  I hope they are very pleased!

Weekend Workshop

I spent the weekend teaching a portrait painting workshop at the Trinity Arts Guild.  This organization has been around for 50 years.  They are a great group of talented, dedicated and hardworking artists and I thoroughly enjoyed spending the weekend with them!  I did a demo the first morning and afterwards the workshop participants got to work.  Here are a few photos from our workshop.

Two different models posed for us.  At the end of the second day we had a critique of some of the paintings produced during the weekend.  

My Other Job

When I'm not painting Fort Worth subjects this year, my "other job" is painting commissioned portraits.  Now that Gallery Night is over,  I've begun this portrait of a beautiful girl that I will be working on as I continue to do my Fort Worth paintings - which are beginning to stack up all around!

Painting Skin Tones

"Hero" is on the easel again.  Today I'm painting the boys' faces.  There isn't a set formula for skin tones because they vary so much according to the individual, the lighting, the time of day and time of year.  For these fair-skinned boys in winter light I'm using a lot of white with pinks and blues and very little yellow.

"Hero"  36" x 24"  Oil   (still in progress)