Blondie and Redbeard

8" x 6" Oil on Panel

The opportunity to practice painting from live models is so valuable to me. These two portrait sketches in oil paint are from this week's portrait sessions. The one shown above is from Wednesday evening's session at Howard Lyon's studio.

8" x 6" Oil on Canvas Panel

This next one was painted yesterday at Casey Childs Studio. Both were painted with a palette of yellow ochre, cadmium red, and ivory black, plus white. One of these days I'll start throwing other colors onto the palette for my portraits, but for now, this simple color combination works. It's a limited palette, but it's not really all that limiting for portrait studies.

For more about portrait sessions, go to "Labels" on the side bar and click on "portrait", "sketching" or "drawing."