I've been getting back to my roots so to speak and have been doing more drawing and painting these days. I start a LOT of projects, paintings, drawings, etc. when I'm teaching but I rarely never finish anything. Well today I did. We have been working on a Fauvism unit in my 8th grade class and this year I decided to try out a new portrait painting project and of course I had to make an example. I used Ben as my subject and yep, I drew it all from the photo and painted it all. For some reason when I took photos the blue paint I used didn't react well with the flash - it's a much deeper blue than what it appears to be on the screen. Here's the results...
Just finished...
and the full image...
You can click on the pics to see bigger ones. :)