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I Stare At People
http://lavanna.com
I am an oil painter that has left the studio to paint people from life. My new studio is the coffee house. I travel light, and usually by bike.
- Added on: Oct 17th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: lavanna martin
- Listed in: Arts
- Tags: painting oil painting portraiture figure painting painting from life alla-prima
Recent Posts
S’mores at Halcyon Coffee and Bar
The couple in the background are sharing S'mores It’s winter! This is the perfect time of year to go to Halcyon and have hot chocolate and S’mores. I’m not a chocolate fan, usually, but this is such a fun ritual, with the pers...
I Painted Martin Button in My Studio
My Dear Neighbor, Martin reading a paperback fiction Here is Martin. We all love him. Martin is originally from New Zealand. He first came over to America to attend college at Berkley. He is a seismic engineer, and a structural engineer. At the prese...
I Painted Hannah Today
Hannah is the daughter of a good friend of mine This is a studio painting that I just did from a photograph of Hannah. She really did not want her mom to take her picture. Both her mom and I just loved the photo; we can all identify with the raw an...
I Painted Sophia in 90 Minutes
I wish that I would have done a better job on Sophia. I’ve figured out what I did wrong – I cheated her on the right side (far side) of the face at the eye level. Please let me know what you think. ...
I Painted Ari Guerrero in 90 Minutes
Ari volunteered to be painted in 90 minutes. She is a very pretty girl, and I was so happy that she showed up in the perfect color for her complexion, and the studio setting! She was nice enough to work in the modeling session before taking off to wo...
90 Minute Painting:Karla Pfennig
My good friend Karla came over this weekend. I decided to paint her while she watched one of her favorite movies, “Hopscotch”. It was the perfect opportunity to add to my new series of paintings: Now I am asking people to pose “li...
