This month I am sharing my flower paintings from the online workshop I participated in with Jordan Wolfson. I will eventually publish some of those paintings on my website, but for now, you guys are the only ones able to see them. I also published four "issues"? about the workshop on my Studio Journal starting June 8 through August 1. I really liked doing the workshop, so I took both parts I & II, each of which consisted of four sessions, a week apart.
What did i take away from the workshop you ask? I learned how to find the form and geometry (shape) of the flowers with drawing to begin the painting, then how to take it to the next level of either realism or more abstraction.
The large charcoal drawings were incredibly revealing. Laying down and erasing charcoal (on good sturdy drawing paper) was a thing I had not done very much so it was really fun; and so good to hear the critique/comments from people in the class, which included the instructor who drew and painted right along with us. By the way, the workshop was small so the instructor took good amounts of time with each of us.
The following are a couple of the graphite & charcoal drawings on paper, each with a photo of the still life I drew from:
