School trip to St George's church

Not school but myself and the rest of Jackie's beginning painting and drawing class made the short trip to St George's church.
I tried to get the two planes as it were.

Self portrait graphite pencil

In progress. It was really exciting to watch an image emerge from the tonal mass, I'm thrilled with this. Loads to improve including composition and tones. Updates to follow.

One hour poses life drawing

Hopefully the evolution of my drawing continues. My concern is that I have little or no finished pieces but I'm learning to draw: I have to start at the beginning. I'm happy with the proportions of these and the tonal mass of the second so onwards and upwards

Pastels

Wow, didn't like using these, like chalks.

Self portrait monochrome

Work in progress, some of the darkest are too dark and with it being acrylic I'm not sure what to do.

Updates to follow.

Done too much and my lack of skill at painting has affected the end result. Good practice, look forward to the next now.

Stage one/two - Articulation

Without any suitable lighting I'm struggling slightly, but here I am on stage 2 or 3 of a six or seven stage process. Updates to follow.

Portrait in acrylics

Try as I might I still cant resist jumping in with the detail. This has done me some good -I'm finally so fed up with this that for the next few weeks I'm just going to be working this one out of my system for good.

Anyway that tendency got the better of me here I think. Still a good picture but...

Self Portrait

Can't get the models, so had a go myself.