I had a spectacular four days in Monterey, California last week at the Master's Convention. It was busy, busy all day long and into the evenings. I saw demos/presentations from Richard Schmid, Scott Burdick, Dan Gerhartz, Joe Paquet, Sherri McGraw, and Dan McCaw. There were also evening panels and demos. It was total art immersion!The second painting here is the figure I did in Dan Gerhartz workshop Thursday afternoon.
The top figure is from Dan McCaw's workshop. This is really not what he was showing us in his demo. He did a head from his imagination....no model. He set up a model for us in the afternoon and basically said to just start painting, using three or four values. (I was the only one in all of my workshops using pastels.)
I was trying to be very loose, and this is what I ended up with after a couple of hours. I got a few compliments, which was nice, but the best was from the model who asked if she could photograph it. She said it looked just like her. ......except, that was not the purpose of the class!
