Here's what painting every day is like! The Cincinnati Art Club provides its members an opportunity to paint or sketch live models twice a week. So on Monday, these were the 3 sketches I did. The first two were quick studies in oil on canvas sheet and the last one a multimedia sketch with oils and colored pencils on illustration board, using ideas I learned from C. F. Payne in February.

I don't do commissioned portraits of people: only homes, buildings or scenes like that. This is more like working out every day or practicing the scales on a musical instrument; teaches me how to see. This girl was maybe 18-19 years old and had a youthful freshness and spirit that I think is challenging to capture in a painting. Which of these three do you like best?