Got crabs?!

I did up these two little studies for the rumble house holiday fundraiser.

 First a quick sketch on top of a toned oil panel.

Then I began with the darks before having to run out for a lunch date.

Upon my return I quickly directly painted the crab.

And then added the background and went back for touch ups.

Drawing a day - Famous dead artists

Every year for the past 3 I have run a campaign to raise funds for the Movember charity.  If you would like to support research and awareness to the growing needs of Men's health go to my campaign here: http://mobro.co/brianbunnybatista

Since I already have a beard because of my halloween costume and an upcoming project and cannot shave and start over from scratch I decided instead to do a drawing a day challenge. For this challenge I am drawing a famous dead artist every day. I am choosing artists who have wicked facial hair as well. Below are some of the ones from the first two weeks in no particular order:

Waldorf School art project ...continued...

Today we are continuing work on our copies because tomorrow we are going on a field trip to see the new collection on exhibit at the Glenbow Museum. I have included a shot of the awesome art room (sans students) as well as some of my demo notes from the chalk board. Their teacher gave me wonderful coloured chalk to write with.

Also some of their original transfer drawings because they are beautiful on their own, without colour.

Here are some of the paintings as finished as they could get before the end of todays session. Some have agreed to continue to work at lunch time.

I am awfully proud of how well these students have done on their projects and with everything i've been teaching them this month! I can't wait to see how they turn out, and of course, for tomorrows early morning field trip!!!

Waldorf School Art project

I was lucky to be invited to instruct for a few sessions at the Waldorf school near COP. I began with drawing basics, shading, value and tone and had them do realistic self portraits. The students then chose a modern artwork to study and recreate. First they draw a scaled up cartoon o sketch paper. This drawing is to be transferred to a painting support.  They lock in the charcoal transfer with thinned burnt sienna and add in the darker values.

In the next sessions the students learn colour mixing and apply colour overtop their locked in and transferred drawings.

They use a big brush and block in the largest coloured shapes keeping in mind the values.