by Melissa Messer
(Featured image, Etude in Green, 8 x 10 oil on canvas board, available) Five weeks have passed since the end of the Randy pose and, because (cruelly) progress is not linear, it has been one unsatisfying figure painting experience after another but the limes were truly a joy.
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Last week, the day before my 32nd birthday, I finished a 6×8″ still life study of three lemons. One lemon sits in a silver parfait dish, which I bought at a collectibles shop that was painful to leave with only this cup.
Read MorePost before last, I linked an article about Jacob Collins who runs an atelier in New York. At the time I was working on a master copy of one of his portraits: Carolina, oil on canvas, 22 x 20 inches, 2006.
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As promised, I present for your reading pleasure a post on taking what I learned from the sphere project and applying it to figure painting in the life room.
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Here we are, another year older another year wiser and off we go again to slay the dragon.
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Here are some pictures of my projects from my first month back in the atelier.
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