Just TeeJay's Blog

I’m in Brooklyn for a week to take a workshop from the oil painter Casey Baugh. Even though portrait drawing isn’t something I ever plan to make a career out of, I am fascinated by the way Casey works. He works from soft vague shapes and Distills them down into a more and more refined image… As opposed to artists who start out with a tight drawing or underpainting and then conform the rest of the piece to that.
Day 1 was spent watching Casey paint from life (his lovely girlfriend and muse Rachel).

            Since day 2 of the workshop will be us painting from life I went back to the hotel room to experiment with the materials that Casey recommended for the class. At least the brushes and the palette. I am using a slightly different medium than he is and he is painting on panels while all I brought are canvases.  I added a bit more to this piece in progress

Then I started putting paint in the canvas for this one. Unfortunately I had already transferred the drawing to the surface, so I wasn’t able to try out Casey’s painting style, but I was still grateful to have  the opportunity to experiment with the brushes and palette before I attempt a human in Day 2.

    That’s as far as I made it last night. I am not sure if I will be able to paint in the hotel room again tonight. I am staying a mile and a half from the workshop and am not sure how much supplies I am going to be up for carrying back and forth everyday. We shall see, I’m thinking about putting everything in my rolly suitcase and looking like a genuine NYC tourist wandering around with me luggage 🙂

~ by justteejay on May 13, 2014.

Posted in Art, drawing, Oil painting, painting
Tags: brooklyn, Casey Baugh workshop, NYC, painting class, painting workshop, siren and seahorse, suicide bunnies