Iris painting

I haven`t been doing many finished paintings of late, but I have still been doing quite alot of sketching.

Here are my latest two paintings.

This is an iris that I painted at my various painting groups that I attend, all in all this was worked on at 3 art groups for a total of 7 hours, then I did some work on it at home.................but the truth be told........We do so much chatting at art group lately, that we hardly do any painting......lol., so there was no where near 7 hours work done on it really.........and it shows!

Dad, 15x11"

Watercolours on arches rough paper.

The above painting is of my dad. I had so many laughs painting this, thinking about all the funny things that he used to say and do.

I joined I life drawing class this week, with my friend Jean. It`s something that I`ve always wanted to do, but I`ve never found a group before. I have to say, I loved it. We worked on three poses, one lasted an hour, and the other two were for about 15-20 minutes each. I`m hoping that my drawings and portraits will improve as a result of going to these classes.

I haven`t got any photo`s of  my sketches, or my life studies, but I`m hoping to get a new lighting rig up, this week, so that I can get some decent photo`s of my paintings, because my photographs don`t do the paintings justice, at all.Perhaps I should has gone to a photography class instead!