Sunday, April 23, 2023

5 Minute Warmups — April 22, 2023

We tried something a bit different for today's warmup, based on Ken's suggestion. We still began by flipping a magazine open to the first image we saw. We took a minute to just look at it; after than, we turned over the reference and took five minutes to paint the image as we remembered it, without looking at the reference again. Ken's added color to his landscape, but remembered all the important features.

Sara also got all the features and positioning of her landscape (although she thinks it looks like a crocodile).

Elaine got all the elements of her seascape, although the colors are more vivid than the original.


Perhaps the most challenging of our photos, Allison's landscape/seascape also included people and a building—and she got it all!


Bryan's architectural painting draws from an intriguing reference, and he captured the starkly elegant structure!

Susan's warmup has all the elements of the inspiration wooden sculpture...

 ...while Jet concentrated on the colors of her reference, particularly the green of the eyes and the blush of her lips and cheeks.

Dan chose a single tomato, and seemed to remember every fold and wrinkle.

Our last warmups got us moving with abandon; this warmup works on visual memory skills. I think we did really well, don't you?

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