Quick study

Ray
acrylic on canvas
art group painting sketch
16 x 20 inches
Barbara Muir © 2009
(The photo is a bit shiny, I'll post
a better one tomorrow).

It's got to be a quick one, because it's late.
I went to my art group tonight for the first time in
weeks and had a wonderful time. I painted this
portrait in about an hour, maybe less because of
the breaks. The model was just great, holding
the pose easily. And he was a terrific looking
young man. I arrived with my canvas prepared
with a light peachy ground and that worked
very well. I would have liked more time, and
I should have had a more dramatic range of colour
with me, but I was happy.

A shout out to Gwen Bell for giving me the Bella
Sinclair Award. I'll talk more about that
tomorrow.

Have a working-on-painting-comes-naturally-to-me day.