This is a landscape painting I’m working on in the Chinese brush painting class I’m taking. Thankfully, I remembered I wanted to take some photos of the proccess, so here they are :)

This is where I left off last week. The pine needles are all split brush and the rock on the left is dry brush.

Color wash (still wet)

Color wash (dry)

Color wash on mountain (still wet)

Color wash on mountain (dry)

Here are some quick sketches from a female model. I’m been drawing guys for a month in the anatomy class I’ve been taking, so it was very refreshing to be drawing a woman again. We did mostly short poses (2, 3, 5, and 10 minute poses), but this first one (a 2 min pose) really captured the feeling of drawing long, gental, smooth and curvely lines again. I forgot how fun it is to draw these types of lines, and I feel like this first sketch really captures the “wahoo!” moment of laying down line after line that echo everything you love about drawing. :)

2 Minute Poses

5 Minute Pose

8 Minute Pose

Sorry, when I upgraded my WordPress, it must have disabled registration.  It’s enabled again :)  (thanks for cluing me in Paul!)

~Danny