Here's what we've been up to in class so far:
Class 1: Cupcakes and Apples
Yes, the cupcake is completely mutant, but trust me, icing is more confusing than you might think. I completely ignored the ridges on the cupcake holder too because various attempts at that were hideous. Let's just say: I'm rusty. I was content to drown my sorrows by eating the cupcake model.
Apples, happily, are less confusing, although these are both still bizarre. The first apple I painted in class. The second was an attempt at home (with a different apple model, and also different paint colors). Neither is terribly thrilling, but it got me thinking about value again.
Class 2: Portraits
My people still look like cartoons. And I can't draw. And the proportions of her face are wrong in both paintings, and so neither looks like the the original photo. I tend to have all kinds of weird little dabs of color, rather than blocks of color or conversely, smooth blending of color, so it always looks a mess to me. Twas my day to get frustrated and compare my work to the really rather gorgeous paintings other classmates were painting. I got over myself by the next class, regained my sense of humor, and got off the comparison trolley to hell, and back onto the, well, painting is fun, just enjoy. Apologies to my sister, the unwitting model.
Class 3: Landscapes
I spent most of the class working on the first landscape, and getting confused as to how to handle the detail and failing to capture, among other things, the color of the water. But it's a pretty place (Bruce Peninsula in Ontario) in real life.