Tag Archive for: from life

Saturday morning Life Drawing- Danielle

      Today's life drawing sessions. Every time I go there I can't believe it is so much fun... I just love drawing the figure! 2 minutes 5 minutes 10 minutes 20 minutes

Winter Plains

Another view of the Bill Williams Mountain, with the blue distant mountain standing out against the golden grasses of winter. I actually stood by the side of a 50 mph road where cars zoomed by me every minute or so sending a rumble and almost…

Saturday morning Life Drawing- Noel

Yesterday our model was Noel. Very sweet guy and yet just sculpted. It was a lot of fun to draw him as you could see every muscle and bone. All surface goodies things you learn while studying Anatomy while never see. So this was a "treat" shall…

Granite Mountain

Granite Mountain 14" x 11" oil on panel © 2014 Srishti Wilhelm Click here to view or purchase I'm revisiting this tall huge chunk of granite that is behind my  house, yet again. It just never ceases to amaze me with its grandeur…

Thumb Butte, Day 13, 30 in 30

After the figure painting session this morning, I actually also did a plein air (phew!), I am behind and I need to catch up. So here are the efforts... I am happy with it overall. I feel like I got a teeny bit closer to the look and feel that…

Natalie (part 1), Day 13, 30 in 30

Figure painting session today again (yay!), and our model for today (and the next two Mondays) was Natalie. It's never enough, you want to keep painting and 3 hours go by so fast! This painting is 18" x 24" is size. oil on canvas panel I…

Aloe, Day 10, 30 in 30

Ok, yes, I promise to catch up. As I mentioned before, I have been revamping my art studio. A sort of nesting phase, cleaning up, starting over etc. So I've been devoting lot of time to that. but I am trying my best to paint as much as I can. Here…

Landscape study, Day 8 of 30

Here is an 8" x 10" study that I did plein air today for the Day 8 of the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. Up on the hill behind our house, when the sun gets low, you can see mountains all around with a different shadow structure on each of…

Helga

Helga is our current model for the Monday long pose at the "Pushing Paint" life drawing group. Here is a step by step process of painting Helga.           Helga 16" x 12" oil on board

Philip

I have joined a figure drawing and painting group, Best thing I've done since, well, since I did the 30 in 30 challenge! Ha! But, anyway, I have been having a lot of fun. We meet every Saturday morning for drawing from life, we have 1-2-5-10-20…