Tudor Safari

This month I've been watching lots of historical dramas and my favorite part is all the incredible costumes and sets. It inspired me to do a few small paintings to fill an empty demo board book I had left over from the semester. At first I just started a drawing of an elephant in Elizabethan garb, when I realized there was a pun at hand, and Elizaphant I was created. Followed by Hyenra VIII, Meery I and Elkward VI, the whole Tudor clan. They were then placed in the book in chronological order of coronation.

Self Portrait

I have started taking an acrylic painting class at my school and I have to say it's very refreshing and interesting for me. I haven't done much in acrylic since I left high school, it's been mostly watercolor for me. But acrylic is very relaxing and I must say, quite a bit easier, I'm loving the ability to paint right over my mistakes. I have a very different acrylic style than watercolor and it's fun to play around with it. And since it's a very involved studio class it's actually really nice to get up at 8 in the morning just paint. I feel like I am learning way more and having much more fun doing the actual work than sitting in a critique for 4 hours. So since it's a fairly basic class we have started with still lives and self portraits:

This is a 40 minute monochromatic self portrait.

This is the same portrait with 40 minutes of glazing over it. I look like a bruise.