Larry Rivers Composition Sketch.

We have been studying art work from Larry Rivers. We looked at some of his art, and did composition sketches of them here are mine.

     The top sketch is of a painting called Fashion and the birds. It was done in 1997 with Oil Paint. The bottom picture is called dutch masters, done in 1991 with mixed media.                                                                                     

Mixed Media Drawing

On one of my earlier post I posted my picture with letter, made up with charcole and paint. I feel that I am very close to completing it, and I'm very proud of it. One thing I would change if I could would be to spend more time getting the letters perfect, especially the S. One thing i'm very happy about is the building up of paint, charcole and pastel.

Towards the end I added some flowers behind the girls head, right now I'm planning on adding a bit more charcole to them, to dim them down a bit, and match the rest of the colour pallet. I also think that maybe I could add a few more flowers around the place, just to add something else.

This was my process of drawing.

Portraits

We have been working on drawing faces, these are my first attempts.

This is my first full of Portrait. Something I can improve is the shading and details. Something that I think I did well was the hair and face. In the second picture(Below this) I think I did a lot better, the face just looks more similar to the real person, and the drawing is a lot better. In the third picture(third down from this one) I did a more difficult angle,
and took more of a risk.