Landscape theme

So my theme isn't as cool as some of the other kids in my class, "dragons" and "medieval scenes" or classic works like Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights all painted with lego character usurpers. It is however, a very enjoyable one for me.

I've never really done landscaping before, but I started realizing how weak I was with environments. I also needed to get out of my batcave for something other than school or exercise. Theme: Miami Landscapes.

It's actually rather interesting to go to these places you used to go to as a kid and experience them again years later. It's a different mood, a different ambiance, a different emotion, yet...you still remember the time spent there and where you are now and look back at the series of events that propagated, the things you experienced that got you to feel how you now feel.

I think some Romantic landscape studies are in order...Turner? or Friedrich?

Also...for any locals (assuming I have an audience), I got a tip about a landscape artist who lives around the Miami area (inspiring stuff) : Erik Speyer

Figure 2

Our school likes to put its classes together whenever they can to save money, which isn't too bad in this case actually. Although I'm adv. drawing, I just stick around with the figure drawing people and do the whole "theme" thing at home.

What's great is...I can finally use color! Our prof only let us use the vine charcoal during the whole semester in figure drawing, so I was very eager to buy some pastels. Still learning how to really draw the figure and need work with technique. These were all done with nupastels on strathmore toned charcoal paper. The black and white ones were just newsprint and vine.

Steadfast

Been anything but recently, but...looking to change things up with some plein air painting. Got some notes from Mark English's class, studies for paintings, anatomy sketches, stuff from Vilppu and more bits from other books I had on the shelf.