Skagit Valley Plein Air

I just finished a plein air workshop in Skagit Valley, offered through Gage Academy and led by Mitch Albala.  It was a fun time, and I would recommend Mitch to anyone interested in improving their process around painting.  He makes wonderful paintings, is a great communicator, and can scale his teaching for beginners or advanced painters.

Here's a few sketches I worked on.  

Gage Portrait Class

A copy of a portrait by Nelson Shanks-

New portrait class with Michael Lane

Painting Sunday

Sculpture with Matt Buckner

Another class at Gage- this one was intro to figure sculpting with Matt Buckner.
Matt knows his anatomy.  I do not.  So it was informative, but also frustrating!

figgy pudding

live figs

more gage drop-in figures

a portrait and a plein air

sunday long pose

Portrait class, final painting third pose + homework

Portrait class, final painting, first pose

Portrait class, and a sketch after Thomas Lawrence

Latest portrait class

Thomas Jefferson sketch, after Gilbert Stuart

portrait class

Sketch from first week of portrait class, and an old Pigeon

Figure painting long pose

Plein air from Lummi Island