Artwork:

Below are three different portraits, using different techniques. I wish I had gotten photos of all the artwork from this assignment....they were wonderful.

The first two Portraits.....Contour drawing is a quick drawing where you look at your subject and not your paper, you never lift your pencil...so there are connecting lines one is not accustom to. The point is to draw what you see, not what you think the subject looks like and to bring in personality.

Byrnie: 
This assignment was to draw yourself with a contour drawing and then paint with two colors only in watercolor with tons of water and be abstract. This painting came out just the way I had envisioned the assignment. It is so wonderful. Thank you, Byrnie, for your years of experience and know how.

Stephanie: 
Again...what a wonderful painting. Thanks.

Diana:
This is from the Complementary Color Challenge of using Blue and Orange. Diana said she wasn't happy with her painting...but I think it has so much personality and the mystery of what is she looking at? I don't think she has done many portraits, but she did so well. Thanks you, Diana. 

Art Challenge:

Stephanie Hakanson: Stephanie is a very prolific painter. Her art challenge included not only self portraits of herself, but also of her husband (I think there was talk of divorcee !!!). For a few terms now, she has been painting family portraits, so it was a natural path for her to paint herself this time.
She usually works in acrylic, but she really experimented with other mediums for this challenge...contour drawings, watercolor, colored backgrounds etc. See more of Stephanie's paintings posted Sept 13th.

This is one of Stephanie"s Plein Air acrylic paintings. We went as a class to the marina on the Klamath Lake (Oregon).

Thank you, Stephanie for sharing.