Tony

last week's portrait of Tony, after a bit of extra work on it, 16 x 20 oil

and a 24 x 18 oil sketch from the Sunday Life Drawing group

Paul

today's portrait of Paul, a bit under 2 hours 16 x 20 oil

Charlotte

this week's 20 x 16 oil portrait  sketch

20 minute life drawing with Conte

Cassie

today's oil portrait of Cassie 24 x 18, 2 hours

some things I have been working on in the last week
some amendments to last week's portait of Yvonne

15 minute carbon pencil life drawing

trying to decide on the background of a portrait of Brian

from the Sunday life session

Asu

today's portrait of Asu,  lovely African/Philippine student at the Uni here,24 x 18 oil,  about 100 minutes

recent portraits

I seem to have missed the last couple of portraits from the group sessions
Shawn 20 x 16 Oil

Tom  20 x 16 Oil

self portrait 24 18

another version

another version of last week's portrait, using the first one as a reference

Shiba

today's oil portrait of Shiba,  Oil 16x20 about 2 hours

Steve

today's oil portrait of Steve, 20 x 16 a bit under 2 hours

Grahame

yesterdays  portrait of Grahame, 16 x 20 oil about 2 hours

Jenny

Saturday's portrait was of Jenny Lloyd, who is one of the artists sharing the Piggery Lane Studios
Oil 20 x 16

The Piggery Lane Studios will be open this Saturday as part of the Autumn Festival... with the adjoining Earthcare Fair, and the Secret Garden Autumn Fair all open... with Food, Music and Activities.

I am trying to reorganize my workspace and display

Hawkesbury Show & latest Portrait

some of  the paintings I'm putting into this week's Hawkesbury Show

and after hanging paintings all morning to help set up the Hawkesbury Show, we painted this sitter in the afternoon

Latest

a portrait from Saturday's portrait group, about 2 hours

and one that I have been working on with my weekly 'tutoring' session

Georgy

Saturday's  20 x 16 Oil portrait of Georgy, about 2 hours

Painting the Mayor

The 2012 Archibald Prize finalists exhibition is currently being displayed at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery and a number of local artists were invited to paint a portrait of Hawkesbury Mayor Kim Ford. He sat for the portrait in the gallery on Tuesday 12th February... not in his mayoral chains and robes!
... and the portraits will be on display at the Gallery after the 23rd.
here are a few action photos... and how  my painting  finished up.

the regular Thursday plein air paint-out  was very hot and windy, and the watercolour painters had a bit of difficulty especially with the wind blowing the easels around... I decided to just stick with the gum tree under the shade.

16x 12 oil

last two portraits

 Oil portrait of young Harry at our last group session in November, wearing traditional Indian dress

at yesterday's session I tried a watercolour and an oil painting of Jamison, this is the oil

Portrait workshop with Evert Ploeg

highly regarded portrait artist Evert Ploeg decided at short notice to put on a portrait painting workshop at his studio on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th November. I noticed it on his fb page and decided to go along, it was 2 days of painting  with enjoyable and useful discussions with 7 artists including our uncomplaining model, artist Greg Somers.
this was my effort ... with a little tweaking of the background and shirt