Chris Beaven

I’m continuing the same painting as yesterday but larger, and from photo reference to start.

Today was a short session of just one hour working on a monochrome start.

I’m going to have to try this monochrome start again, maybe.

I moved very slowly through this monochrome start and still I find issues with my drawing.

Drawing once, checked digitally and drawing again.

I’m one quarter of the way done with my monochrome start series. Only 75 more to go.

Some poses are much harder than others to draw it seems.

Before I was able to begin this monochrome start I needed to spend some time preparing more paper.

I’m very pleased with this monochrome painting, I didn’t wipe it out.

Another monochrome start that seemed to come together with ease.

A monochrome start with extreme foreshortening.

Today was very fun yet busy, so I only had time for a half hour of drawing at the end of the day.

Life drawing with our model Gary, and I’m happy with how it turned out.

After 20 monochrome starts I still struggle with the drawing.

A lack of focus and time really effects any art I do. Today the heat and other tasks conspired against me.

This drawing went well but the outcome seems a bit clunky to me.

It seems that I’m getting faster at these monochrome starts.

So I took my last session’s monochrome start a little further with much more work on value.

The monochrome start went very smoothly today.

Drawing in oil again, but with a different video series and a slight change in my paints.

I’m retrying the previous image and spending more time on it. This painting turned out a bit better.

Today was a short session and I have some good excuses but honestly I could have done another hour later in the day.

The drawing of this monochrome start went really quick. I may have picked an easy pose.

My tenth monochrome start and I’m starting to get a feel for doing these, although I still need to simplify further.

I liked my last monochrome start so much that I decided to try and add some color to it.

Although the drawing is not spot and it goes off the canvas I’m happy with this monochrome start.

Lots of interest in this monochrome start but I lost clear definition in basic shapes.

I’m caught up on my posts and I’m happy with a monochrome start for once.

I’m still struggling with getting the drawing correct. But I’m only on the fifth one…

Now I’m getting back into the swing of things. At least my routine is back in order, but this start didn’t go so well.

I’ve done three of these monochrome starts now and I’m not perfect at it, what gives? Just kidding, of course, I hope to get better around number 100.

It’s difficult to post work that is less than satisfactory, but I feel a need to expose my shortcomings, then deal with them head on. Currently I need much more practice drawing in oil.

After a late July 4th night I didn’t have enough energy to get through the 5th with a lot of focus so this was a shorter session.

Ok these next two posts are going to have the same images because I accidentally deleted all my photos from the July 4th painting session, oops!

Taking my last session one step further I added a second tone, or duotone, to this painting.

Something a little different today. I wanted to get back into drawing with a brush so I did a monochrome start.