holiday islands and beautiful ladies: paintings from the art classes

The last 2 weeks we've been working together with local graphic and product designer Steven Bouwens from  studio 09. Both of these paintings are works in progress where Steven was experimenting with using various techniques, including palet knife. In both cases the canvases were prepared with a single background colour, a sketch was made with charcoal and then worked out further with a palet knife. It's a good technique if you want to create an impressionistic style.