Kauai rooster

 

From a photo on a trip to Hawaii several years ago.  Kind of digging the open acrylics I bought a year ago, pretty similar to oils with easier cleanup.  

Figure drawing practice

 

Winter in the pandemic for me means I've tried to polish up my figure drawing skills.  It's a lot more fun when you get a little better at it, and if I say so myself I've improved over the past two years of Covid craziness. 

Gladioli

 This is a little 4x6 oil I did over the holidays from a photo reminding me of warmer times.  Kind of proud of the composition of this one, and what Kevin MacPherson calls the "magic grid" effect wherein the verticals of the flowers are echoed in the trees, and the horizontal elements are more or less parallel.