Paints And Graphites

Can you believe all of these were painted with 5 colors each?

*Arbat is a place in Moscow known for street portrait artists. Some of them are good. Most of them -not. Doesn’t matter really.

Trying to move to a more juicy thicker painting technique, as opposed to my thinner layering style.

Eugenia, 6h, charcoal pencil, chalk pencil, craft paper.

Still, good experience. I think the next one would be mid-toned paper+charcoal+white pencil (chalk? pastel? Idk, will need to do some trials), so I’m excited.

Though as much as I love this model, It’s the third study I finished of her, and I wish we get someone new starting January.

I was on my way home and saw these guys - and they slayed.

Vika, 12h

All things considered, this is not bad for something that is a mix’n’match of two different light settings.

Olga, 9 h, pencil on paper.

6 h, oil on canvas. Honestly don’t remember the model’s name, but I think I stepped up my portrait game.

I think I’ve reached a new level of quality.

Katya, 3h, pencil on paper

Katya, approx 12h. In an inexplicable turn of events, this piece decided to photograph properly. Which is a good thing, because I absolutely adored this model, and the piece turned out so well. She has a beautiful delicate bone structure, but at same time, such baby-doll features. This is not perfect, but this is probably as good as I can get at the moment. (Despite my mentor’s joke that it could do with 6 more hours - hahaha no.)

Lena, the portrait of a painter painting, 4h. I had no idea I was going to do this today, but it happened, and I love it. Basically, I would draw anyone just not to draw any bouquets. The main challenge was to actually do a portrait of someone who is constantly moving. Also, first time using the Berlin Lazuri. I had my reservations, but Oh My, did it work like a charm. The universal truth, my dudes, is that 50% of a painting is finding the right Big Three, and ayyy, I’m getting really good at that.

Kira, 6h. It feels strangely new in technique for me. Hand fragment, 9h. The hand WAS the focus of this, but granted that the model is a living and breathing person, it’s pretty hard to get her to put her hand in an exact position, so half of this is from imagination. This a really weird piece, but parts of it are fantastic and it’s good enough. And yeah, I know, I’ve heard all the jokes about erotic academism under the sun.