Oils and color…
Still a limited pallet, raw umber, lemon yellow, titanium white, ivory black. This one took about 50 minutes and measures about 3.75″ square. https://www.johnhuismanart.com/
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Another small painting
Another quick small oil painting. This one is 4.5″ wide by 5″ tall using Burnt Umber, Black and titanium white. Took between 45 and 60 minutes to complete. https://www.johnhuismanart.com/about
Learning to paint with oils
I am going to try and learn how to use oil paints. I am going to try to do a small painting every day using limited pallets and try to stay away from tiny brushes. This one is 5″ X 6″ using only Burnt Umber, Ivory Black and Titanium white. Some of these will undoubtedly … Read more
July 17th 2023 live figure drawing session at Art Works in Eagan
I managed to attend another live session at Art Works in Eagan last Saturday. Again working in charcoal on Newsprint for the quicker sketches and then on 70lb for the final drawings, (I am not sure why, they are all just quick sketches really). It’s always fun to get to these sessions, it is something … Read more
June 24th 2023, live figure drawing session at Art Works
I haven’t made many of these sessions in the last few months but I finally got to this one. I decided to go with charcoal because I have never really liked charcoal, (to messy?), so I have been thinking lately that it is something I should spend more time with. We start with about ten … Read more
More sketches from 2022
Going through the second half of the year or so, looking at some of the sketches I have done… most of these have been posted on my instagram page close to the date they were completed. I have added the better ones to my webpage https://www.john-huisman.com/sketches/ I will work on adding them to my pinterest … Read more
New pictures added to the sketch book page
Here are some sketches I added to the page on my website: “From the Sketchbooks” Of course this isn’t all the sketches I have done, just the ones that ended up being somewhat presentable. As always, I wonder why I do this sort of thing. I think to myself that I am honing the skills … Read more
Daily figure drawing practice
7-16-22 I am trying to work larger on the page with this. Seems like I start bigger usually and then things shrink down as I get more accurate with the forms. So I tend to work with small compartments of the page. Here I tried to start large and stay large. Some success I guess. … Read more
Figure drawing session at Art Works 5/26/22
I managed to make it to a figure drawing session on 5/26/22 at Art Works in Eagan. I guess I wasn’t completely disappointed with my work when I looked at it the next day. We usually start off with ten poses at one minute each for gesture drawings, these are mostly charcoal and soft pencil … Read more
Blog posts, sketch progress from 2021
5/20/2022 Over the past few years I have been trying to spend at least a little time every day doing some sketching. Sometimes they can be rather refined sketches and sometimes very rough. For some reason I feel that I want to work at getting better at this craft. I probably spend 20 to 60 … Read more