Julia, again

I did another small portrait of JuJu today, trying to remember what I was taught in the 80s by Danni Dawson. The inspiration is a portrait by Thayer that I see often since it lives at the Freer Gallery which is across the street from my work.

Group Art Project

Lately I've been preparing a large canvas for a group art project to be completed at the Spring Farm Festival at Hard Bargain Farm on May 2. Blog readers should come by and help see this to fruition! The inspiration is a large 'Oceans' mural that was briefly set up on the Mall outside the Smithsonian, with one section being completed at the time.

Pops Teaches Julia how to Draw a Goat

I like that this captures a starting point to becomming an artist - learning from a master.

Annie

Luckily, I have no shortage of beautiful nieces to practice on as I work through the Klimt thing. For this one, the fun was in taking progressive photos along the way so I could make a movie of the process, but then the computer crashed and I can't start up my movie software anymore. Maybe this will happen later.

Tara final

So I did end up putting more color in the background.
Below is the inspiration picture from my Klimt calendar.

Tara

After painting Andelle in a Klimt style, it seemed like fun to give Tara a similar Klimt-like treatment. I'm not sure if this is done or not; I'm debating whether to put some more work into the background.

Andelle

Now that I joined facebook I have new source material. The portrait of Andelle is from her facebook photo. My treatment of it is inspired by this Klimt portrait in my 'Klimt's Portraits of Women' Calendar.