figure painting

I feel rather triumphant when I succeed in forcing myself to address paints and a paint brush when doing figures. It's like making a two year old clean her face. She dodges, twists and turns, anything to avoid the wash cloth.

I made her rather fatter that she is so I simply brought the blue background in further. Her breasts were glowing like headlights until I darkened just a tad the shadowy side. I also worked on subtle value changes and using warm versus cold, all things I learned about in my classes and now just have to work into muscle memory.

I had thought that I wasn't so interested in realistic figure painting but the more I do it, more I enjoy it. I'm still not so interested in getting a person's real skin tone down. I'm still looking forward to seeing where I am in March.