Portrait of Marisa

"Portrait of Marisa", 24×30 cm, oil on canvas
(1st varnish layer added)

Life model about 68 hours of painting, a two-week-pose

You can see the painting process starting with drawing and transfer to canvas below:

This portrait was a lot of work and so much patience and long hours for Marisa to pose. We had excellent teaching, demos & lots of patience our teacher with us. ;)

The portrait above is the first life model portrait I've done.

Snowman

Every year in the winter time I make a snowman of snow and paint it. When making a snowman I need to wait for a perfect snow conditions so that the air and snow are humid enough to able the snow flakes to stick together and form a ball. ;)

The painting can be a plein air in the garden/at the terrace or painted through the window depending of how cold it is outside. I also need to think what kind of a hat to put to the snowman. This year's hat is pretty much chosen so that's a good thing.

Here is last year's snowman:

"Snowman", 24x33 cm, oil on double oil primed canvas

Pine Cone

"Pine Cone"

minuature oil painting on gessoed paper

# 24 Mystical Winter Forest

"Mystical Winter Forest"

30x40 cm, oil on wood, still working on this one!

 (wip - not quite finished yet)