Portraits

This looks like as good a place as any to share the process I've been doing.  After doing a few more classic portraits, I've started a series called Monsieur X.

After doing my parents, then I did my best friend, Patsy Hamel 12x16.  Then, my mother in law, Claire, 9x12, both on suede matte board.

Determined to loosen up, I did my son Max on suede matte board 12x16.

Then I began the series that I am now embarked upon - Monsieur X #1 on Hahnemuhle velour 9x12 light yellow.

Monsieur X #2, gray velour 9x12

Monsieur X #3 - I really like this one.  A neutral beige velour kind of like moonstone.

Stay tuned for #4!

Ingenue 12x16 pastel.  Now I have done portraits of both of my parents.  Next is a self portrait of an earlier time, the real me, then one of my best friend in the whole wide world.  My Pledge: I will not stop for a landscape until I have done at least six portraits.

I just made a new logo for the Top of the World Studio Gallery.  Makes a nice sticker, too. :-)

Somehow I started a new blog by going and finding my old blog.  It's just as well because my old blog was all about PeaceThings, and this new one will be all about making art and teaching art.
But for posterity, here's the address to the old one:
http://peacethings.blogspot.com/

And since this is a transition from PeaceThings to ArtStuff, my first painting here is Frogman, 12x18 pastel painting of my father when he was a young man.