notes from underground

So I’ve done a few more paintings, including some I’m reasonably satisfied with. Success! A major plus was switching to working primarily with a painting knife for doing anything more complicated than washes, I feel like I’ve got a lot more control than with a brush, especially with lines.

First off, here’s my “studio”, or “cubicle” on a bad day:

Here’s the painting I did in response to the prompt “Patriotism” (I’ll go through my thought process on this one in another post, it’s the first painting I really planned so far this term):

Then one done in response to “Camouflage” (Don’t you love these vague assignments?)… How many faces can you find?

Then, finally, some plein-air studies we did down by the river. I think I like these even more than the camouflage one, they were a lot of fun to paint.

Those last two will be some of the building-blocks for a later project, I’ll rant about that soon too. For now, goodnight!