Author: cathmary1030

Sketch Awesome.. Portrait from a Loomis Head

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I have a bad habit of signing up for online classes (Jed Dorsey’s Mini Challenge, Ali Kay’s VIP Fresh Paint class, Sktchy’s 30 Faces in 30 Days, Kara Bullock’s Let’s Face It 2024 (and 2023) and now 2025) and then letting the classes languish. The only good thing is that they’re all “lifetime” (or at least until they go out of biz!)

Anyhow, I suddenly got fired up to draw more portraits, so I went back to Phil Davies’ Sketch Awesome class and looked up week 4 which was about drawing portraits based on the Loomis Method.

Below is the result of doing the head in profile via the Loomis method. I don’t have a credit on the author of the reference photo, which comes with the class.

Artists I Like

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Artists whose work I’ve Purchased

Jed Dorsey – https://www.jeddorseyart.com/

Jim Musil – https://jimmusil.com/originals

Chris Long — https://www.chrislongpainter.com/

Artists whose work I Like (Contemporary)

Hashim Akib — https://www.hashimakib.co.uk/

Phil Davies — https://www.instagram.com/phildaviesartist/

Teddi Parker — https://www.instagram.com/teddiparkerart/

Vicki McGrath — https://www.instagram.com/vickimcgrathart

Favorite Artists

Winslow Homer — in particular his watercolors

https://www.wikiart.org/en/winslow-homer/west-india-divers

https://www.wikiart.org/en/winslow-homer/diamond-shoal

https://www.wikiart.org/en/winslow-homer/hurricane-bahamas-1898

Berthe Morisot

https://www.wikiart.org/en/berthe-morisot/young-woman-at-the-mirror

https://www.wikiart.org/en/berthe-morisot/hide-and-seek

Vincent Van Gogh

https://www.wikiart.org/en/vincent-van-gogh/irises-1889

https://www.wikiart.org/en/vincent-van-gogh/the-starry-night-1889

Doug Clarke

https://www.liquidmethod.com/ — I especially like his figures

Mary Whyte — https://www.marywhyte.com/

Joaquin Sorolla

https://www.wikiart.org/en/joaqu-n-sorolla/my-wife-and-daughters-in-the-garden-1910

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_on_the_Beach

52 Mini Paintings Challenge: Week #26

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This is the week 26 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. It’s called “Blue Sky Poppies” and is based on a reference photo by Sergey Schmidt. 6×6 canvas panel, untoned.

I’m not overly happy with this one. I struggled with the flower shapes and the soft focus of the reference photo. The result is that it’s more abstract than I had originally intended. However, I AM (mostly) happy with the colors.

Getting Back in The Groove

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It’s been 7 weeks since I’ve picked up a paintbrush… just busy doing other things, (like reading for a book club, Ancestry DNA analysis of my mom’s matches, and some day trips w/ hubby). I had this red-toned 8×8 canvas lying around so decided to do a grayscale version of a coffee cup (image from Unsplash).

52 Mini Paintings Challenge: Week #19

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This is the week 19 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. (I’ll get back to weeks 17 and 18 some other time). It’s called “Roses for Mom” and is based on a reference photo by Ann Dorsey. 6×6 canvas panel, toned in Naphthol Red.

I listened to the video of the class weeks ago — we’re already up to week 23 — and just used a grayscale printout of the photo as my reference. For the roses, the darkest red is Quinacridone Magenta, otherwise it’s just Naphthol Red with varying amounts of Titanium White.

This was a fun one to paint.