January Challenges for the Friday Fanatics

Since we will not meet at our usual time for the last two weeks in January, the Fanatics have been issued two Challenges. Send me photos of your work to post to the group.

Challenge #1: Using a photo or sketch as reference, turn the image upside down and then do your painting upside down. This is a technique we saw in a John Lovett video at AAC. It helps you focus on shapes rather than your perceptions of what those shapes should look like.

Challenge #2: Paint a self portrait. Any medium is acceptable except photography. This can be from any time in your life. I'm posting the first two entries here. Can you guess who they are?