Painting Class #3

Yesterday was a long, tired day. Part of the tired was my own fault for having gone to bed late the night before. A lot of it, though, is me adjusting to getting up, getting the kids ready, going to preschool and leaving from preschool for my 5 hour class. Plus, we took my mom out to dinner for her birthday- which was fun, but I passed out when I got home. I barely got my makeup off before I lost consciousness!

Ok...painting...

Our class is quite small- only 5 of us yesterday. I think its fantastic! We have motivated, serious people in there and the environment is great.

After several short paintings as a warm up, we embarked on this still life:


It was not easy for me. I am getting a good kick in the pants after a summer of producing what I consider successful paintings. It's good for me to feel this way. I nearly chewed my own lips off while painting. Nothing seemed to pull together. I couldn't get the forms to relate, and the perspective is...sort of not-good. (very technical language, here.)

Here's what I ended up with:


Yes, I will do more as per my reference photo. I hope I can get it to pop. I hope I can pull it together. I hope.