Watermelon Girl, Current Watercolor Portrait Painting Assignment

This cute little girl enjoying her slice of watermelon is our current watercolor portrait painting assignment, which we began on September 14. Students can choose to paint on either 1/4 or 1/6 sheet of our usual watercolor paper. It's going to look great!

Next Oil Painting Project: Geisha painting

Here is our next oil project, which begins September 19. Everyone is excited about painting this Geisha, which is from a poster I found at Hobby Lobby. Working on an 18 X 24 canvas, there will be a lot of texture in the background, and an aged patina over the entire painting. 

Painting Roses with Backlighting assignment

Here is Ken with his roses. There is supposed to be a windowsill in this, but I don't know if he will include it in his painting or not. We'll paint the roses with the same high-contrast look we see in Ken's painting. The light shining on the roses from behind (backlighting) creates quite an impact--the roses really pop! I plan to use this assignment with both my oil and watercolor painting classes.