painting 4

that girl from class, her name is Shoshana (sp?). she asked me if i am a professional painter, basically. oh i *blushed*. oh how i want to be.
so in this class, we were working on a figure drawing. but here's the catch, we could only use burnt umber, black, and white. this is a good exercise in tonality. the theory - when we go back to using multiple colors again, we will have acquired so much new insight and technique in shading, that our work will be awesome. we basically got the underpaintings down this class, and we'll be working some more on the painting in the next class.... this is also the night obama has been elected. i voted for him this morning like a good citizen.