Seascape Paintings of Laguna Beach

These are some landscape paintings I did last Summer. I got a call from Phoenix Arizona asking about them so I thought I would post them up here.  This first one was selected by the Coldwell Banker in Laguna Beach for the calender.

1/3 life sculpture of Elizabeth

The 4 latest installments from the work on the Liz sculpture.

Sketchbook scans:

90 minute Color Study

The model did not show for Sergio's class so instead I did this color study of one of his paintings that he brought in. I wanted to keep working but he was leaving since so had everyone else at that point. I tried using his method which puts drawing at the bottom and color at the top in terms of importance. 

He does not have the original up on his website but THIS is sort of what they look like on his website. 

Portrait of Liz

I've been working on this on and off since last June mostly just for fun but also as an exercise to teach myself how to sculpt. While the likeness of this is not at the level of precision I would like I'm calling it done. After all, no matter how well I sculpt this a severed head with the lips slightly parted, staring up with all the muscles relaxed has trouble looking anything other than lifeless. The next one I do of Liz will definitely have her smiling. 

Better Pic of Liz.

That other photo of this is not really that good at all. Since I was retaking pictures of a bunch of things I'm stuff on anyways I thought it best to post this up here. 

I was retaking pictures of artwork I've done in the first place on account of Industry Open House at LCAD, should be fun.

Liz Sketch

I painted this sketch of Elizabeth McGhee using a modified version of the technique I normally use. Basically, I just used a lot more medium through out the painting. I started with transparent colors like Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, and Ultra Marine, before working into the light areas with Lead White and the cadmiums. The image I transfered from a photo I had taken of her for a sculpture I was doing of her onto an 8 inch by 10 inch canvas.