When I need some colour therapy....

Before I take these off the easel and forget about them......I started them a few weeks ago, they are not finished pieces, but I want to start another - I have the painting bug, sometimes when I am working with print and copper I really miss using colour. (I may have to work this into my prints!)
I have been really busy lately working and doing other things so there hasn't been enough "creative sanity time" carved out.

Here are my photos from the 'introduction to Studio Lighting' course I did recently. It was only a very short course, 12hrs in total. (Through the Centre of Continuing education, ANU, here.
Featured in the photographs is my beautiful friend and fellow artist Sonja, you can read her blog here. Sonja was an absolutely amazing model, I photographed  for 1 hour- mostly in the 1st position and then a few impromptu snaps at the end. It is intense when you don't really know what you are doing, we were really just experimenting. I had an image I was trying to work towards from a book, I found it hard to capture the exact lighting but I am really happy with the result.