Rachael posed for the Friday class. She's a terrific model, with wonderful poses and costumes. My paintings of her don't do justice to the delicacy and beauty of her features, but hopefully we will get another chance.
The top one seemed successful to me, and sold, but the model's right hand (resting on the urn) is unacceptably vague. The second one, with the model holding the urn in both hands, was a three minute gesture...but I like the sketchiness. The final one, with the model resting her chin on her hand, has some poetic license--her bent leg (also supporting her chin) was originally bare. I thought that would be too much flesh tone, and also too hard to read, so gave it some orange cloth covering.
