napping nelson and naked dude

I painted Nelson tonight while he napped on the couch. He didn't quite stay still so I never figured out how his hand was curled up under his face.

The other pic is from last week's class. It was a 40 minute pose, but I still couldn't manage to finish it.

watercolors!

I started my watercolor class at SVA last week. I'm not used to painting humans so they're a bit sloppy and weird.
Today I decided to practice by painting Tricia. We did it at two different times of the day, which screwed up shadows and I ended up giving Tricia a swarthy complexion. I also had difficulty painting details and defining her face. At one point she looked cross-eyed so I blotted it out.

Thank you Tricia for being so patient.

still in progress

lacy gloves

drawing lacy gloves helped to hide the fact that i suck at drawing hands. =P

Sketchcrawl

Yesterday was Sketchcrawl! We braved the snow and cold to go drawing at the Natural History Museum. It was beautiful outside, but too slippery. I hurt my knee and my foot.

There were lots of hyper, annoying but cute kids at the museum. They were drawing pictures too. I liked painting bugs in the Hall of Biodiversity, even though the fake rainforest in that room always reminds me of Generation Jets.