My latest charcoal drawing and an earlier figure drawing

(Completed with the help of Mr. Dean Miller at Swinton's Art Supply - a fine painter and an all-around nice dude.)

Here is a figure done slightly more recently:

This figure was done earlier:

Plein air season is here!

I've official started plein air painting season. I intend to go out at least once a weekend (hopefully more), and I'd like to get out sometime after work and paint in the evening. I want to practice a ton before I go to Peru, where I want to paint twice a day there so I can come back with a nice collection of plein air paintings.

Anyway, here is the first offering of the year:





















I tried to foucs on two things: keeping my colours bright and fresh, and then keeping the shape of the tree accurate. I kinda think I need some more lights throughout, and somehow the tree looks a little cartoony, but overall, I like it. It's the first painting I've done that I don't mind calling "cute."