Valerie in the shadows

I’m still having trouble with organic shapes in a painting where there’s also detail.  

Garden book

Practicing for some outdoor painting

Zorn palette study

The Zorn palette is a simplified palette that was popularized by the Swedish painter Anders Zorn.  that uses only four colors of black, white, yellow ocher and red to produce a harmonious spectrum of colors.  I took a weekend class and worked on these two studies.