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Painting Day Update

3/17/2011

 
Thursdays are my scheduled painting day, so, every Thursday/Friday I'll be posting my paintings in-progress & breaking down the process, to fully illustrate the various steps along the way to a finished painting!

I'm currently working on a series of paintings of yoga poses. I've just started, but thanks to a 1 hr photo shoot (at 8pm on a Friday night, eek!) with a wonderful yogini and fellow TSA teacher, Laura, I have a lot of great material to work from :) The pictures, along with the various stages of the oil painting process that I use, are below:

Painting #1: Dove Pose
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Started with this picture of the lovely Laura in a magnificent Dove pose!
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Then did this quick, small study to figure out how I wanted to frame the figure on the panel.
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After my first session working on the actual painting...the underpainting stage.
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Painting-in-progress! Still have a lot to do, but it's getting there...

Painting #2: Wide-Legged Forward Fold
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Picture from the shoot...
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Quick oil sketch/study before starting large painting.
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Day 1 of painting--underpainting stage.
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Painting-in-progress...still a lot of work to do, but you can see where it's going (and please excuse the sideways photography, the wet oil paint glare was too much from any other direction).

...and there we have it! I'll continue to post the progress of these paintings in the coming weeks. I plan on starting another 1 or 2 yoga pose paintings next week, as I like to work on multiple pieces at a time to keep things interesting, so I'll post the beginnings of those works once I've begun...

Thanks for joining me in the creative process!

Namaste,
Mary Catherine
Laura Blake link
3/18/2011 02:07:28 pm

I want some yoga paintings! These are going to be so cool.

Mary Catherine
3/18/2011 09:57:16 pm

Thanks so much! I'm having so much fun with them :)


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