Bus sketch'es 1.2.3.4.5.

[eighty+]

hi Pat yeah had a good in the dozing in the Sun must do a quick ssssketch if I've got time ok thanks


soons like seattle ATTA wishing you a safe and happy journey get painting as I always look forward to seeing them ok SLAINTE

[eighty+]

Hi a charcoal quickie as should be in bed ok

[Caesar]

Charcoal too fits Your outstanding talent perfectly, dear ATPlus! Each face and expression is sheer delight more than ever! We may well bow in a wave in front of Your mastery and I'm sensibly serious about this. Go, go go ......

[eighty+]

Hail O Caesar O Mighty One just done this one as I thought you'd Like ok .....

[D Akey]

Sorry Mr Ploos, this forum software keeps killing my posts. . . lost a longer one.

Anyway, if I can recall what I wrote:

I was saying that it looks like a cross between Michelangelo (for the musculature) and Gustave Klimpt (for the pose). Did you know that when Klimpt painted that he was telling the critics to kiss his bum. How's that for symbolism, eh? Hahaha.

The previous one that you painted just before falling into a deep sleep shows how deep your bus ride takes you in your night time journeys -- in this case all the way to China, it looks like. . . via Vienna (Klimpt's stomping grounds). Good job you have the presence of mind to have taken your sketch book, neh?

Your Asian counterpart there is very skillfully drawn. Really good elipses on those glasses. Shows how valuable attending to the details is to making a picture work. Were they wrong, the whole thing would fall apart. But happily, you did it just right and it looks masterful.

I am very much appreciating your strength that you're getting into your work. It shows a confident hand. Bravo, lad!

[eighty+]

yeah Mac I was thinking ChinaPete when I painted it possible a lookalike anyway brought this big bird back from China just in case Pete gets Stroppee


thought I might need back-up........she a big lump

[chinapete]

wow ... is "fastpainter" on that bus to China with you? ... send photos from the Wall, hehe ...

[D Akey]

Ah, the tattooed lady. . . Yeah, the overall is good. Mind though about the wrinkly bits and bobs that they don't look like tattoos or those little red lines what hit the nose when someone drinks heavily -- only a massive binge girl what can put under the table the whole town, this one.

Which no doubt she is not. . . this 'ere wizened lassie. . . So the solution to this kind of thing would be in future to maintain your hierarchy. . . and I don't mean the eldest male down to the youngest female and below that the servants in that order. . NAY! I refer to the information you put down and the relative relationship of the marks.

And when I list this, I mean it's where you want the viewer's eye to go. First is the overall first impression. As such, there would be the darkest structural stuff around hair owing to it being informational and in some cases black of color, though she is probably gray (in which case it's not the top bit of info). Also perhaps more important than the hair, the features that are important to the face - ie eyes, mouth and then nose (ears are also important depending on angle of the pose), followed by shadow under the jaw, then around the eyes and then cheekbones. And then in a much subtler way you can put in the creases and folds.

The emphasis you give to each is what makes your voice heard. Right now your voice says this model is an old prune of a head hunter and fell ashore in New Guinea and took up with the natives what tattooed her by way of initiation.

Other than that small matter of the hierarchy, you got good info here and have not backslid. Just something new to consider is all.

Go man go!

[eighty+]

hi mac ....pete sorry feel tired I done the lump this Morning been in the garden all day just fin the young bird so off to bed goodnight

[pat1940]

Hi eighty, another great selection of drawings and paintings, boy you must have fantastic vision to be able to do such detail in your works, great job my friend, will check back tomorrow