Marianna

Hello Friends:

Sadly, our last open studio of the year was last Wednesday. Happily, Marianna was our beautiful model. I won't have so many opportunities to paint from life over the summer, but will look forward to getting back to it in the fall. In the meantime, I have a few formal portraits that I'm working on, and will post them as I finish them!

Mari

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Mari came to pose for us in portrait class a couple of weeks ago. She was the perfect model-- always right on her mark. I kept this one loose and impressionistic. I hope you like this effect!

Daniella, 9x12"

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Daniella is a young student at Mainstreet Art Centre who posed for our Open Studio session last night. I tried to keep her face and features very soft, then punched things up a bit with the palette knife at the very end.

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