Active Listening-4x5 inch Alla Prima Study (Patreon)

I'm working on putting some new videos together this week. I have a lot of stuff planned for the coming month! A lot of footage and new ideas floating around. Really excited for where the choir is at. Thank you everyone for being here. I am truly grateful.

In the meantime...

I'll be sharing some of these little Alla Prima studies I've been doing. 

I've been keeping up with the automatic drawing routine. I try to get at least one 15 minute session in every day. 

Right now the nightly art routine is:

• 1-3 hr alla prima painting
• 15-20 minute automatic drawing session

I don't always know what to paint. That's a main reason why I love sketchbooks. I can fill them with rough ideas when I'm really motivated or inspired or whatever and then look to them when I don't have the same motivation or inspiration

This piece, "Active Listening," came out of one of my recent automatic drawings.

One thing I find useful about automatic drawing is that you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it out. 

The painting session was an attempt to put some of the pieces together in a different way.

I think this piece took about 2 hours. Then, before cleaning my brushes and pallet, I did a quick automatic drawing session. In addition to creating new potential artwork, I feel like this practice kind of winds me down and clears my mind.

This is how that turned out.

And That's the routine right now! 

I'll be doing posts like this every day this week. I'll do a regular straight up time-lapse of the whole process later in the week. I'm filming all these paintings so they will pop up in future choir videos.

These studies will also be available to the choir soon and I'll list them at a special price just for the Choir.

Have fun!

Good Night Sweeties.