I hope more people will post their work here.

Grotious – I’m going for a single background color, the actual background adds nothing helpful to the scene. I’ve spent about 40 hours, including all time for setup and drawing as well as painting.

ronsu18 it’s not Monet’s, although I plan on doing more of the same theme (light from ipad, monitor, phone…) with master copies as well as photos. So it would be a painting of a photo of a painting.

Here’s the drawing, and the 1st color layer. Sorry about all the glare and blurriness in the photo. Will post a better photo when I am further along.

way too cold for outdoors. thinking of you, hope everyone’s defrosting and well! slow going here on this thread but it’s a funny month, isn’t it. feels like mountains of energy going nowhere.
AllisonR, eagerly awaiting more progress! i really appreciate the drawing, too.
Grotius, glad to hear you’re hired and expecting just enough challenge and fun in your work!

let’s call this a WIP. i’d like to glaze the white on but didn’t use drying medium. maybe paint edges& detail tomorrow and glaze in a month.
n e v e r paint white at south window an hour before sundown!

WIP “candy cubes” 21x14cm

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cobalt, perm madder, perm red medium, naple’s, malachite g, payne’s.

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so glad to see your figures again! i love that she’s leaning, the contact with the wall defines and builds this world, together with the comp. you’ve created a strong mood. i’m playing “count the strokes” forward with this, good exercise and easy because it’s so far advanced for 90min.

the painting the cubes was a pain due to changing color scheme from icy sky blue to deep plum. painting from right, every time i got to far left, the values and color had transformed. planning porcelain on white under electric lighting next.
oh so surprisingly, it’s snowing and the temperature is plummeting. so, no painting just shovelling 😝.

hi glad too read you DMA glad to hear all’s rolling along! thought of drawing a fat cartoon footsie to do the kick to bring your painting here 😊.

Allison the blacks look so good they must be amazing irl. the first thing i noticed was the pad, how densely synthetic the black looks. then studying the beauty of the bg noticed the meticulous temperature shift. really good!

Grotius two classes a week, that’s great! you could compare both of these to photos from a year ago. even the first layers are so controlled now, the masses sit, strokes are shorter, more confident. on an almost unrelated note, do you ever use rags? can’t help thinking how one stroke with paper here and there uniting strokes would model those round shapes to near completion…

painted a second hour to the cubes, not much difference and feeling curiously lost. we had almost no snow in december and i got used to making progress! intuition says this should definitely have been larger to be easier, too much needlepoint detail going on. the left needs deeper shadow.

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Ronsu, Allison, Grotius excellent job done!

My late night study of a ceramic jar is Fabriano oil paper, size about 20×35 cm.