a couple of studies from life

[Chris Saper]

Oh, my! Thank you so much for sharing!

These are all just gorgeous, just as they are. Lovely work.

[Ramesh Vyaghrapuri]

Originally Posted by Chris Saper

These are all just gorgeous, just as they are.

Thanks, Chris!

The compressed blurry photos (am too lazy to spend time on photographing studies) nicely hide away the lack of variety in brush strokes and edges which makes the surface somewhat boring and too much like an illustration.

Here is an earlier oil study where I find my brushwork more interesting (but it was mostly a study in edge/color/value contrasts) which had some wet-in-wet layering that sometimes worked...

I will post newer work in separate threads as seems the convention here.