Painting the Passion of the Flamenco

Preparing and warming up for a week-long class with charismatic, San Francisco-based, Corel Painter expert/evangelist Jeremy Sutton. Class starts this coming Monday at the famous Santa Fe Photographic Workshops (located on the campus of the  monastery in Santa Fe).

Class starts with a Monday photo session at the beautiful Santa Fe Masonic Lodge, featuring a half-dozen flamenco dancers. The rest of the week we'll be in a classroom getting inspirational instructions about transforming our photos into energetic and passionate digital paintings.

Sounds like a fabulous week ahead.

Painting with Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop on top of a previous image I developed from
a live flamenco dance performance.

Detail of the image above, with a few more revisions. Canvas size, 30 x 40.

Drawing During Debate

 I like to use alliteration in blog headlines ("Drawing During Debate") because I care deeply about the 47% of people who read but don't draw; freeloaders who refuse to take responsibility for their drawing skills.

Two-minute warmup sketches. I can usually tell how I'll feel about the night's drawings depending on how easy the warmup drawings are. 

I was tempted to stay home and watch the Presidential Debate instead of attending the Tuesday evening drawing group. Fortunately I decided on drawing, which made a total of four artists at the drawing group, just enough to cover the cost of the model.

Bikini tan model.

For the last pose of the evening I switched from charcoal sticks to a 6B pencil. 

A quick digital painting based on the bikini tan drawing above, 24 x 28.

Canvas: Rio Chama (again)

When I opened one of my digital paintings, Rio Chama, to see if I should make any changes before sending it to the printer, I decided “yes it needs changes. In fact, it needs to be completely repainted.”

River bank, detail from Rio Chama, below.

Rio Chama, 36 x18