Streets of Venice
9 x 5 Inches
Art Treehouse and M Graham Oils
on Gesso Primed Maple Plywood

Rihard and Jess: Thanks! Hopefully this thread will let me easily see what all I have gotten done over the years. Noticed how useful it was to track one’s own growth and work from year to year recently.

Sarah and ronsu: Appreciate it, the Venice street has been really enjoyable to do. I actually recorded the early block in stage of it and posted it to my YouTube awhile back. Since that time I took it even further than what I had finished at the end of that 3 hour day study day (but only an hour or two more, just refining edges and defining some things). Still a work in progress though, going to put a few hours in here or there to take it further.

Thanks Annie! Still working on the dog and the street of Venice. They are coming along though, little touches here and there pushing them further along.

Portrait studies:

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3

4

Camera phone pictures, poor lighting situation, will probably scan them in at a later point. #4 is still wet on my easel right now (it’s in my sketchbook). #2 is a particularly poor blurry photo and is actually due for another layer building up some details, but too tired to get a better picture. . . a bit past my bed time (like 3 hours past ).

Most of these took 5 hours or less, except #3 which took a bit longer because I wasn’t used to the surface. They were just studies, but I learned enough from them to feel comfortable doing a bigger one, and it turned out quite well I think. Perhaps I shall start recording these things in action and post the videos of them from now on.