"Santa Fean 13"

"Santa Fean13"

6"x6"
oil on Ampersand artist panel, cradled 3/4" profile.

                      (Ref: B&W photos in "E PLURIBUS UNUM Santa Fe" by Axle Contemporary)

"Santa Fean 12"

"Santa Fean 12"

6"x6" 
oil on Ampersand artist panel, cradled 3/4" profile.

                   (Ref: B&W photo in "E PLURIBUS UNUM Santa Fe" by Axle Contemporary)

"Santa Fean 10, Santa Fean 11 "

"Santa Fean10"

6"x6" 
oil on Ampersand artist panel, cradled 3/4" profile.

                     (Ref: B&W photo in "E PLURIBUS UNUM Santa Fe" by Axle Contemporary)


"Santa Fean 11"

6"x6" 
oil on Ampersand artist panel, cradled 3/4" profile.

                  (Ref: B&W photo from "E PLURIBUS UNUM Santa Fe" by Axle Contemporary)

"Santa Fean 9"

"Santa Fean 9"

6"x6" 
oil on Ampersand artist panel, cradled 3/4" profile.

                  (Ref: B&W photo in "E PLURIBUS UNUM Santa Fe" by Axle Contemporary)

"Santa Fean 8"

"Santa Fean 8"

6"x6" 
oil on Ampersand artist panel, cradled 3/4" profile.

             (Ref,B&W photo: From "E PLURIBUS UNUM Santa Fe" by Axle Contemporary)

"Santa Fean 7"

"Santa Fean 7"

6"x6" oil,
on Ampersand artist panel, cradled 3/4" profile.

    (Ref,B&W photo: From "E PLURIBUS UNUM Santa Fe" by Axle Contemporary)

"Santa Fean 6"

"Santa Fean 6"

6"x6"  
oil, on Ampersand artist panel, cradled 3/4" profile.

                   (Ref,B&W photo: From "E PLURIBUS UNUM Santa Fe" by Axle Contemporary)

"Santa Fean 5"

"Santa Fean 5"

6"x6"  
oil, on Ampersand artist panel, cradled 3/4" profile.

                 (Ref,B&W photos : "E PLURIBUS UNUM Santa Fe" by Axle Contemporary)

"Santa Fean 4"

"Santa Fean 4"
6"x6" 
oil on Ampersand artist panel, cradled 3/4" profile.

(Ref,B&W photos : "E PLURIBUS UNUM Santa Fe" by Axle Contemporary)

"Santa Fean 3"

I am planning to do one portrait a day starting August 1.
I am painting people in Santa Fe, the town I am living.

6"x6" 
oil on Ampersand  artist panel, cradled 3/4" profile

                 (Ref,B&W photos : "E PLURIBUS UNUM Santa Fe" by Axle Contemporary)

"SantaFean 2"

"Santa Fean 2"

6"x6" 
oil on Ampersand  artist panel, cradled 3/4" profile 

                 (Ref,B&W photos : "E PLURIBUS UNUM Santa Fe" by Axle Contemporary)

"SantaFean 1"

6"x6" 
oil on Ampersand  artist panel, cradled 3/4" profile 
 

                 (Ref,B&W photos : "E PLURIBUS UNUM Santa Fe" by Axle Contemporary)

" Figure Drawings"

Tuesday Night Figure Drawings: short poses, 10-15min

" Figure Drawing"

24x12, charcoal, on news print

                                

"Portrait from Mugshot of Celebrity"

6"x6" oil on gessobord

"Tilda "

24X24, Mixed Media, on Canvas

working in process

These are working process of my final piece for this course. Not finished yet: 24x24, on canvas, Mixed media ( acrylics, sand, and pastel) I had a surface I created for a while ago as the base of a painting. It has lots of texture. My reference is Tilda Swinton which I use for the previous charcoal study. There I didn't include the hands. Here I am adding hands. 1) I applied reds and green over the old surface. I forgot to take photo of the old surface. Blue showing through is old surface. 2) I applied light browns and scratch some random lines. 3) Wash off some part to reveal underneath 4) Draw in hands and facial feature.

                                                                                                     
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"Tilda Swinton"

 14x18
Mixed Media(acrylics, charcoal, pastel)
on illustration board















Ref.

"pink socks"

Oil on canvas, 12x18

This is from a photo of my daughter sitting on the big cushion with her cat, looking up. I skipped the cat to paint. The diagonals in composition intrigued me to paint this.

My daughter is one person I know who wares "Pink" so well, as a grownup, naturally.
Color "Pink" and I don't complement each other. With pink on me, my skin color looking ugly and ,vice versa. On me, color pink looks so unnatural, unsophisticated color.

"Me"

14x17, charcoal on ledger

I made a composition rather than just a portrait.

"Self Portrait"

This drawing of 'me', through the mirror. It is impossible for me to do well with photograph.
So spontaneous and  simply done with fewest strokes possible.
It works!
I got the essence of me here.

pen & charcoal, on sketch pad,
11x14

11x14, charcoal on paper
I love the depth with layered effects charcoal is creating. It give haunting beauty.

"Self Portrait"

"Hye, at the studio, with apron on"

 11x17, compressed charcoal, on  sketch pad

"Me"

Last night, I found this drawing I did just before I moved to Santa Fe, on May, 2012. I was not quite happy with the piece, then. But I am looking at it now, not bad and happy that I am looking lot younger, even only 2 yrs passed by.

                                                
oil pastel,
16x20, on canvas pad

"Figuire Drawing"

I made head tilted more forward with longer neck from the previous study (I), exaggerating boxed shape of this pose:

 charcoal  (compressed) drawing with turpentine wash
16x20, on canvas pad

the previous study_I