Today's project was "Pet Portraits"

However, we decided that we would all paint and/or sketch from the same monochrome reference image.

We all enjoyed the exercise and particularly enjoyed inventing the technicolour!

Today's project was to sketch or paint in the style of the one of the great masters.  

We used a pack of cards of famous paintings and each chose one - as you can see they ranged from van Gogh to Jackson Pollock with van Eyke, Turner, Klimt, Gauguin, Serat, Vermeer, Monet, Magritte and de Vinci in between.

We all enjoyed the challenge and learnt a bit more about the great artists in the process - well done all!

This project involved life drawing with our sitters Jane and Les.  

The difficult part was that we could only use our non-dominant hand to sketch with!

We loved the project and although likeness was sometimes a bit difficult to arrive at in the short 15 minute poses, we really enjoyed the challenge - well done all!