Went thrift shopping for props. Got a lot of interesting items which I can’t wait to paint. Here’s the first tableau. The wine is real, but the apples are fake. My classmates warned me that wine “evaporates” very quickly in the atelier and that I would need to top it off daily.

The actors are on the stage.

I spent about an hour trying out various arrangements and viewpoints before settling on this one. Then it was time to do a small value study before breaking out the paint brushes.

Twenty minute value study in graphite, 3″ x 4″.