Walt Whitman portrait by Thomas Eakins will be my second cider project painting. here is the first study thereof.

 Cider Bar Project involves several old world mastercopies I will be graced with the honor to present two paintings to the cause. This is a wipe-out study of the first by Auguste Mayer of the battle of trafalgar. 

Third Grisaile figure two week pose oil on canvas 16x20" 2012 Martijn Caspar Swart

Weeklong workshop with Alan Carroll before end of the term. Here is his site Surface Fragments This is my mastercopy measuring 4 feet by 7 feet. Acrylic paint and lotsa fun. you can see the various stages of the working process. 2012