Steps in a Painting

This is part of the fencer series, almost a new series since it's been awhile since I finished the last one. Here is Gesso Board which I am squaring off in 1" squares

Board all squared up.

Photo that I took at a fencing club. Deciding on position for figure. Center?

Figure offset to left. I like this positon; creates space for what the figure is looking at.

Where to place the horizon line? Higher making the wall farther away? With an opening?

Or lower, crowding the figure.

Sketch a Day - 16

SkADaMo-Sketch 15

Day 28 and no sketches since Day 14 due to a dreadful cold and Thanksgiving. So I may continue into December.

SkADaMo-Day 14

SkADaMo 13

At last! Something approaching what I was trying for.

SkADaMo Days 11 & 12

Day 11

Day 12

Day 11- Thanksgiving is coming!

Day 12 is influenced by the book I am reading- Marbles by Ellen Forney about being diagnosed bipolar. I have my own struggles with mood and anxiety.

The sketches are so rudimentary. And the control is different-uses different muscles, my hand is cramping.

SkADaMo Day 10

"My! what progress you've made." you might say. But no, it's just that I traced this from a pencil drawing.