Added in the clavicles and scapulae.

Worked on the humerus bones today.

Further progress on this skeletal ecorché. Today was mostly spent on the femur and adding some foundational clay to the tibia/fibula area. I also worked a bit on the rib cage. Lots more work to do but it is starting to really look more and more like a skeleton.

Today’s still life in Schuman’s class. This was done over a cool celadon ground with a full chroma palette.

This is a large 72×40 inch canvas for my composition and design class. We’re supposed to do a painting that deals with some of the design conventions of the Baroque period. In particular he wants us to have something break the picture plane. I have several things breaking the picture plane in this painting. This painting is an homage to Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson painting maybe one day ill get to see the origional.

Here you see the tonal drawing I put down this evening before leaving the studio and a small tonal study I did during lunch today. Now to see if I can get it done on time.

Today’s progress with the ecorché (lots of upper skull work today) and a 20 minute gesture from the last quarter of the class. It’s a little dark but this was taken from my camera phone.

The final dead palette. This time we augmented the the flesh ochre, yellow ochre and blue black with vermillion, cadmium yellow light, and cerulean blue. These allowed me to brighten the chroma while still maintaining the muted sensibility that comes from primarily using the dead palette triad.

I lost interest in this evening’s lecture at the Academy and ended up filling the intended page of notes with gestural figures. You can still see a few notes at the top.