12, 16, and 17

As you can tell, I'm not keeping up very well with the daily paintings, but I did a few more this past week so I thought I'd post them.

This first, Shannon, was under the tutelage of Ellie Kerr-Smiley, and I wasn't particularly satisfied with it. It had some challenges: First of all, the angle of the face (I'm terrible with profiles), and second, the flowers, which I haven't the patience to master.

Next we have Amelia, painting with Elena Mahoney Sánchez, who was a crazy exercise in extreme uplighting (not to mention some interesting makeup choices that I haven't seen since the '70s), and then Tom, also painted with Elena using an interesting red and green color palette.

Amelia made me kinda crazy but turned out to be weirdly wonderful, while Tom was a great exercise in using alternate colors to reality and also leaving parts of the painting untouched in order to spotlight other parts.

I'm definitely learning some stuff doing this, even if it's not been a daily process.