Joyce Hick's Demo Day 2

This is Joyce's demo painting...very fresh and light and sunny.  So much planning goes into these!  Fun to watch. We spent a lot of time working today on how to take a photo you have taken (even less that great ones) and re-make and re-plan and re-compose them into really solid designs. Her reference photo looks very little like this painting!   

In the afternoon we went up individually and had a conference with Joyce about the painting we will be working on tomorrow from our own photographs.  We composed it together and then she did demo of a possible value sketch for each of ours. (There are 8 of us in the class.)

Tomorrow we will re-do both of these and move into doing a "color study".  Mine is a WI farm scene.  I'll try to show the steps tomorrow.  This is HARD work, guys! I fall into bed around 9 pm exhausted.