Hold the Olives...

A double teaching day yesterday with two demos from life. Another one today for The Malibu Art Association, my third time painting for this lovely group of artists.

The painting in the morning, Backlit Demo, was from a model, so a little more freedom was had to be arty and play with light.

The second demo in the afternoon was of an artist friend of mine, Lis Schwitters, so more traditional. One really needed to capture the person and not get arty!

What fun. Think I might have to put my flats on though today. All this standing for hours. And it might be a double something cold tonight. Shaken not stirred. Hold the olives.

Here is the Malibu info:

http://www.malibutimes.com/articles/2011/02/16/malibu_life/people/people2.txt

Backlit demo, California Art Institute

11 x 16

$125.00

Anatomy of a Santa Demo....365 Days of Drawing

Not sure I felt like painting another Santa just 12 hours later but I did. And I had a lot of fun. This Santa was a joy to chat too and very talented in his own way.

Here is the demo...including the drawing which meets the challenge for the day.

Ah.... yes, a class to teach today and another drawing to do.