A Landscape Oil Painting, Female Figure Sketches and Pencil Portraits

Eva Green pencil portrait.

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Hey there, art friends! 

I've been busier than usual the last couple of weeks because I'm launching my first two mini-courses, which will be free for my newsletter subscribers! These two mini-courses are intended for total beginners looking to start drawing and/or painting with watercolors and are coming out mid-May. 

Each of these courses is three classes long (10-15 minutes each) and each class includes its own exercise I ask you to complete before moving forward. They are chock-full of information that I wish I had when I first started drawing and painting with watercolors. Knowing this information will not only give you a solid foundation to build skills upon, but will also help you save some money (we tend to buy supplies in the beginning that we really don't need). 

To be notified as soon as they're out, make sure to subscribe to my list here:

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Aside from working on my mini-courses and teaching my afternoon art classes, I'm continuing to challenge myself to improve my drawing skills, which is INCREDIBLY important, no matter what artistic medium you plan on developing skills in. The past couple of weeks, I've been sketching a lot of female figure studies, as well as portraits. 

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Sketchbook pencil portrait studies

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Sketchbook pencil portrait study.

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Sketchbook female figure pose study.

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Sketchbook female figure pose study.

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Sketchbook female figure pose study.

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In case you're not following me on Instagram (instagram.com/erika_lancaster_art), you should! On there, I share what I'm up to on a daily basis. If you've already been following me, then you're probably aware that a couple of weeks ago I challenged myself to produce a total of five landscape paintings using oils. I've nearly completed the second, which I will be sharing soon! I'm including the first in this mini-collection of my latest artwork!

Cabin and mountain landscape. Oils on 90 x 70 cms. stretched canvas.

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See the process that I went through to create this oil painting in this YouTube video of mine:

That's it for now, but stay tuned for much more to come! 

I hope you're having a wonderful day and that you've been able to set aside at least a bit of time to work on your art! 

Cheers!

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