New Paintings To Share

I am still practicing drawing and painting faces. I definitely see progress.

Here are a few that I have done from imagination instead of using a source image.

Baby Blues (close up) Copyright 2009 - Christy Sobolewski

Fall (close up) Copyright 2009 - Christy Sobolewski

And a while back I was painting only one color and did a black and white study. Here she is with a bit of color added:

Grays (close up) Copyright 2009 - Christy Sobolewski

You can see the full paintings from the gallery at the bottom of this post.

What really intrigues me is the huge difference between drawing a face from my imagination and drawing from a source image using contour line drawing. Take a look and tell me what you think.

Indian Princess (close up) Copyright 2009 Christy Sobolewski

This painting was done on a scrap of canvas and I used a source image (a stone angel from a cemetery). You can see that the contour drawings have such a different feel to them. Different yes, but I like it just as much.

Tomorrow I am posting my new series of abstract seascapes. I am very interested to hear how you like them. I have 5 of them to show you. Tomorrow!

-Gulfsprite