How did you do this week? I feel like everyone is officially 'back from the holidays'. Did you make some progress in 2026 so far? f you have anything specific you need help with, please post in this thread. Thank you 🙏✍️🎨

Had some time where I was just waiting around, so decided to do another colour study. Continuing the theme of women in hats I guess. I did not realise that I was slightly too zoomed in and consequently did not work all the way up to the border. However, the pink undertone as a result shows through in quite a nice way. I think my version is a bit more saturated in general, for example the background is maybe more bright and colourful, but I think overall the relationships are still reflected well. This time the film is Barry Lyndon directed by Kubrick.

Just something I did while on a train with nothing else going on. Now I'm looking at it again, it feels like the face is too prominent and too warm. To take this further, I'd try to darken the face a little, plus darken more around the head and silhouette of the shoulders to hopefully push them further back. Of course, I could also spend time trying to get a likeness but that wasn't the goal of the exercise. It's interesting to see how chromatic/saturated this kind of material gets. I think the pink feathery stuff transmits light and makes it more intensely colourful. It was also nice to see how colour temperature can tell the story of which planes are facing in which directions. At least it seems to me that the cool blue light tells a story of what faces upwards. Since my train journey finished I could not take it further, and some things like the colour of the jewellery I did not have time to really take a go at. The film is Wittgenstein directed by Derek Jarman by the way.

Focussing on planes, profiles and length of face. So these aren't homework, just trying to understand what I'm missing. There are lots more sketches than these but I think these show a bit of progress. And I know I'm still not quite getting it haha. Will pick up again tomorrow with planes part of homework.

Another head study with imagined top/butterfly lighting. It's nice to have an exercise that forces me to use some knowledge of planes. The likeness is not great, perhaps because the painting looks too wide and square-jawed. I also feel the form modelling in the mouth and chin is a bit confused. In terms of values, I wonder if I could have pushed some of the darks a bit darker. And finally, with imagined lighting one of the hardest things is to decide on a good shadow border shape. I ended up with something quite simple but it could have been nice to make it a bit more interesting to look at. Nevertheless, I'm still happy with it. It was fun to make and looks human!