Cropped Sargent Studies! (Patreon)

Taking a note out of James Gurney's "Imaginative Realism" and continuing to learn from my favorite art teacher, I decided to continue the quick portrait studies with, you guessed it, Sargent! It all started with 'Egyptian Woman', and then I looked up what seemed to be one of his favorite muses, Flora Priestley. He had done several paintings of her (first three, bottom left) and they were all different color temperatures: warm, cool and neutral grey. I thought that was really fascinating, and I wonder if it was intentional...

I hope to try and paint one of these a day, but we'll see. I made them all small enough that it should be easy to do so.

Also a sketch book update! So long story short, I kind of got burned out on it. Everything I have to say is just going to sound like an excuse, which I try to avoid. I just got really frustrated, and then my motivation to keep pushing through that frustration sort of died along with it. I have another sketch book that has no textured paper and is spiral bound, which I think is more suited for my particular weaknesses. I might try to fill this with a variety of studies instead of just figure drawing, and work in pen so I can't get caught up on fixing my mistakes. All I know is, I don't want to give up on keeping a sketch book just yet.