Erica WIP 20×30 painted this morning at life modeling session at USC Aiken. She still needs a lot of work I think. Like fixing her saggy right Tata. I am also not enamoured of the greyish flesh color. And twitch her mouth to the left a bit. 
  
Richard Diebenkorn in his studio from an old Horizons magazine. 

 We have been studying Richard Diebenkorn who was an abstract expressionist and a Bay Area painters an influential west coast group starting in the 50s. 
A Beginners guide to Diebenkorn at 

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/richard-diebenkorn-beginner-guide from his recent retrospective at the British Royal Academy.  

 Coffee by Diebenkorn. 

  
Diebenkorn. Don’t know the title. It is  more similar to my painting I color. 

  
 
Diebenkorn Don’t know the title. 

  Bay Area painter Nathan Oliviera love the way it seems to fly. 

I would love to try Oliviera’s style but I don’t know where you would start. More about Oliviera http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/november/nathan-oliveira-obit-111710.html

Other Bay Area painters are Elmer Bischoff, Thiebaud, David Parks and Thiopolis Brown. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx