Preeti

The second piece I will working on is of my very good friend Preeti Kinha. I really tried to go for a madam X kind of look. I think she nailed it! I could totally see her walking down the red carpet!

update: carla

Carla's piece is almost finished! just a few things to touch up here and there. so excited :)))) i'm going to move on the second painting for now but I will return to add the final touches. Just need a break to see it with new eyes :)

Carlalalala

soo excited for this new set of work. My first subject is my super awesome friend Carla. she was such a beautiful model and it was really difficult to choose one picture to work on. We had a ton of fun working on this and I really want to do a good job on this :) I'm really going for that classical beauty look.

meeting with advisor

it was so great meeting with carrie! she is so awesome and she gave me some really good deadlines. this will really help me organize when i need to get things done :D

class critique

The class critique was really great. I got to see what people were doing and to hear some opinions of my work. I was really flattered because a lot of people liked my underpaintings (which I didn't think were that great at first lol) but it lets me know that I'm on the right track :)
As much as i admire the expressionist painting style I am really a die hard naturalistic painter. Maybe one day i will pull away from this obsession but as mark put it " you just have to get it out of your system."
Hopefully I can pull together a body of work that will do this :)
Mark suggested that I paint a ton of portraits. My only challenge now is to figure out how to make them interesting and how to put my mark on this art form that has been done numerous times.
So, with luck, i go forward!

angelo asti makes beautiful portraits. but doesn't this lady look a little like Sargents lady agnew??? omg

alicia and mark

It was really nice meeting with alicia and mark the other day. I got some really good advice and they were super excited for what i was working on. I showed mark some of my work from my old blog (freshman to junior year) and he really thought that I should work on what I love. I always loved portraiture (inspired by Caravaggio and renaissance painters). Something about the classical style mixed with any contemporary is really interesting for me. this artist ; eugene blaas is really awesome .

the classics

Right now i'm at the point where I'm trying to figure out what i should commit to. I've been really looking at the classical arts. I found this great website http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/search.php that has the work of all the artists I really admire. i'll be looking at these and trying to draw some inspiration. I really want to get started on a painting but I need a spark of inspiration...

p.s this is like a combination of rococo and renaissance lol (lawrence alma-tadema)