Portrait Gallery -- December 2010

[Lauren F-M]

What's on your easel (or in your sketchbook) this month? :confused:

Show a finished portrait or one in any stage of progress. This thread is for showcasing your work; others will only critique your work if you request it.

So please show us what you've been up to this month. We'd love to see it. :heart:

Even if you have already shown it in the main portraiture forum, you are invited to showcase it in this thread, also, as this thread will remain in the Library Archives. (Portrait Swap WIP shots most welcome, too!)

And be sure to check out previous Portrait Galleries in the Archives. Lots of great work in there!

So... let's get those portraits set up in the gallery....

[Lauren F-M]

At my weekly Wednesday morning portraiture workshop, we had a wonderful model for two weeks. He dressed a bit piratey.
I decided to do a monochrome oil sketch, using a tube of this year's Gamblin Torrit Grey. (Gamblin makes it annually from all the pigment sludge left over from making their oil paints -- more information on their website -- and hold an annual competition of art painted with it.) I've never used Torrit Grey before, and so was curious to see what kind of grey I'd have. This one is quite purpley.

Here is my study of Gustavo after our first session (a little over 2 hours):
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/03-Dec-2010/20772-GustavoWIP1.jpg

Here he is again after this week's session (add another 2 hours):
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/03-Dec-2010/20772-GustavoWIP2.jpg

Sorry that the second photo is a bit blurry. I added a touch of ultramarine blue to the background, to help differentiate it from the figure and make it stay 'back'. I'm thinking of tinting the rest a bit -- though keeping the palette kind of cool and subdued. I can work on it from here using the reference photos I took.

C's & C's welcome! :D

[Lyall_W]

This is what I've been working on this week:

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/03-Dec-2010/488061-ajp_wip1.gif
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/03-Dec-2010/488061-ajp_wip2.gif
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/03-Dec-2010/488061-ajp_wip3.gif

Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk.
It's not done yet, but I'll post more as it continues to develop.

Sorry for the cellphony wip pics, I usually save the digital camera snaps for finished works.

[sidbledsoe]

Looking great there Lauren and Lyall, nice characters.
Here is a little 6x6 inch oil I just did:
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Dec-2010/112587-IMG_0034.JPG

[lovin art]

Lauren great start here , did you have a drawing or straight into this with paint on this one ? :thumbsup:

Lyall , very dramatic painting to come ...hey !!:)

Sid the painter of the smallest small ...lovely!:D

[sidbledsoe]

Thank you Sandra! (you too)

[lovin art]

Thank you Sandra! (you too)

oh you saw that did you :D , yeah she went for a quick dunk in my big bin ocean .....:lol: :lol: but thanks Sid:D

[duene]

Just finished this watercolor of a cowboy. It's about 9" x 12" on Arches 140 lb. paper. I used Daniel Smith watercolors.

[watercolourfanatic]

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/10-Dec-2010/219929-blogphotos_cr_plus_009.JPG

This is the latest of my American Indian portraits. They are mostly based on old black and white photographs from Edward Curtis from the www.firstpeople.us/ website.
This is a Zuni Indian called Shiwawatiwa dating from 1903. He is described as a warrior but the Zuni were not very warlike and mostly avoided conflict which is why they still survive in their original location on the Arizona/New Mexico border. The history of the American Indian, especially the conflicts that occured with the advancing white civilization, is another of my interests.

My portrait painting `style', if you call call it that, is based on the teachings of Charles Reid .

[sidbledsoe]

You guys have got me all excited and wanting to start some cowboys and indians and horses too! I love these guys, nice portraits!

[JoyCF]

Framed... :)

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/14-Dec-2010/188619-PortraitFin136.JPG

Painting is oil 16inch by 20 inch.

Finally got it finished and framed. The painting has a lot of room for improvement, but I am happy with it as it is my first portrait and she looks sort of human (and I have learned a lot from it.) :)

Now, just need to sign and varnish it, but going to wait a few months to let it "dry" before I vanish.

Happy Painting :wave:
Joy

[Lyall_W]

Lyall , very dramatic painting to come ...hey !!:)


Thanks for the encouragement- it's been drying for about a week now and will be ready for sharing soon.

Loving the other work in the thread so far!

[armparas]

Hi to all,
Nice posts everyone.
Here is my contribution.
Thank You very much.http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/15-Dec-2010/43594-Tatang_Andu_20.JPG

[kreativekate]

Hi all, I did a portrait a day for the beginning of this month and posted these in the acrylic forum because that is what I painted them in. Hope it's OK to post them here. :) Oh drats I got the 'ack' message again when I tried to upload the pictures. Been doing this on and off for days now- sent an email to tech support. :(

[LGHumphrey]

Beautiful work, armparas. What medium is that, and how big is it? Really well done.

[armparas]

LGHumphrey,

Thank you very much.
The medium I used is Charcoal pencil on 15" x 20" paper.

[kreativekate]

Here are the portraits that I did every day for the start of December up till the other day. A series of women. Each one took me between 2-3 hours they are A4 size in acrylic on canvas.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/15-Dec-2010/202891-Geisha_No_2a.jpg
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/15-Dec-2010/202891-Geisha_3rd.jpg
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/15-Dec-2010/202891-Mina1.jpg
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/15-Dec-2010/202891-Vietnamese.jpg
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/15-Dec-2010/202891-Hawaiian_1.jpg
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/15-Dec-2010/202891-eSKIMO_wOMAN.jpg
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/15-Dec-2010/202891-Indira_Ghandi1.jpg
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/15-Dec-2010/202891-African1.jpg
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/15-Dec-2010/202891-Aung_San_Suu_Kyi.jpg
:)

[LGHumphrey]

Way to go, Kate, lots of good practice there. Very nice assortment of colours.

[kreativekate]

Way to go, Kate, lots of good practice there. Very nice assortment of colours.

Thank you Lawrence.

[lovin art]

Still on my drawing board :D , My Beautiful Daughter Nell.........in graphite, lovely work on here guys well done !!...:thumbsup:



http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/22-Dec-2010/186639-002-13.jpg

[Collette207]

this is my first real portrait....and haven't painted in six years. i worked from a photo and will admit i rushed some parts out of necessity. It is 9 X 12 inches and oil. the photo doesn't capture the colours exactly. comments welcome. thanks.

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[old_hobbyist]

We have a posed model at our weekly sketch group. The three below are 12 x 16 acrylic on canvas panel. ~40 min each. Santa is Bruce, a 6 ft 6 'Nam Veteran Ranger who visits local grade schools during December. He also posed in his Ranger uniform a month ago.

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/26-Dec-2010/214919-Thurs_workshop-12-23-10-bruce.jpg http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/26-Dec-2010/214919-Thurs_workshop-12-16-10-Tony.jpg http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/26-Dec-2010/214919-Thurs_workshop-10-28-10-abraham.jpg