not even close

to getting done in 3 hours because I worked longer on composition and
underpainting. I realized that with a more developed underpainting, I could
get a looser, more gestural look that could support some unfinished areas.
So when I was running out of time I just worked on the face and a hand and
let the rest go. Also for a change I tried to catch a fleeting expression instead
of the normal posing deadpan. Colorwise, I had a new magenta-viridian/ochre
axis going.. 14" x 16"

I don't remember much

Quick, sloppy start - just throwing paint around. I left the face shadows
too gray and cold. Autist that I am, I enjoyed painting the blouse pattern
the most! 14" x 16" - 3 hrs.

quiet

Tired and sleepy while I painted this, so I tried to work as efficiently as
I could. Limited palette of mostly warmed and cooled Venetian red.
14" x 16", 3 hrs.

I liked where the underpainting was headed, I'd like to stay this loose
throughout..

bedlam

Painted this at a local gallery that had timed the modeling session with some
sort of 'Art and Wine' street fest. So about 100 drunks trouped by while I worked
on it. I enjoyed listening to a cognoscente describe to his friends what I was doing,
while I personally had no clue! About halfway through I thought this was a lost
cause with chalky skin and flat purple shadows. But I brought modeling into the
shadow side with dark oranges over the cool that helped rescue it. I switched to
14" x 16" which is much better for portraits. In retrospect, I was nuts to have been
painting portraits on 12" x 16".

out of time

I switched to an easel with a shelf-mount palette directly under the canvas,
which saves a lot of mixing time. Even so, I couldn't do more than rough
in most of this in the time I had. It didn't help that I noticed a massive
drawing error with 10 minutes to go. Need to remember to use model breaks
to sanity check my proportions. 12" x 16"

tighter and looser

I added a step to my block-in process: After the initial broad figure placement
with an egbert brush, I delineated with a small brush so I was pretty clear on
shapes early on. This helped me be looser with paint application. 12" x 13" - 3 hrs.