painting portraits
These portraits are in oil, guache and acrylic paint. Spring 2020 I started using oil, and by Fall 2023 I started using guache. Many of these portraits are of models from the life painting class I took at College of Marin in the Spring semester of 2020. For most of the other portraits, I use reference photos of a person that has an emotion expressed on their face that catches my eye, or of a person whose face interests me. I’m trying to move into an impressionistic style and focus on shapes of color instead of realism.
"Yellow dream" Oil on canvas panel. May 2021. 9x12in
Oil on wooden panel. Spring 2021. 16x12in.
Oil on canvas. Spring 2021. 9x12in
"Gaze" Mixed media collage, acrylic on canvas. April 2021. 9x12in
"Blue Glow" Oil on canvas. March 2021.
"Aaron" Oil on canvas. March 2021.
Oil on gessoed wood. March 2021.
"The Yellow Dream" Oil on canvas. February 2021. 20 x 18"
Oil on canvas. February 2021. 18 x 20"
"Looking into the Mirror" Oil on canvas. February 2021
"Self portrait" Oil on canvas. February 2021.
Oil on canvas. January 2021. 20 x 18 in.
"Marianne" Oil on canvas. January 2021. 20 x 18 in.
"Prudence" Oil on canvas. Spring 2019. 14 x 11 in.
"Woman in a red boa" Oil on wooden panel. Spring 2020. 12 x 9 in.
"Secret garden" (in progress) Oil on canvas. Fall 2020. 14 x 11 in.
"Secret Garden" (Finished 1/21) Oil on canvas. 14 x 11 in.
"Pigeon" Oil on canvas. Spring 2020. 14 x 11in.
"My Beautiful Mother" Oil on wood. 12 x 10 in. 12/2020
"Sorrow" Acrylic on loose canvas. Spring 2020. 24 x 18 in.
"Hurt" Acrylic on loose canvas. Spring 2020. 24 x 18 in.
"Serenity" Acrylic on canvas. Spring 2020. 14 x 11 in.
"Scheming" Oil on canvas. Spring 2020. 14 x 11 in.
"Allie" unfinished. Oil on canvas panel. Spring 2020. 12 x 12 in.
"Rue" Acrylic on wooden panel. Fall 2019. 14 x 11 in.
"The consequences of gender norms, They/Them" Acrylic on wooden panel. 2018 or 2019. 15 x 12 in.
