Workshop of Faces and Figures

I recently took a 3-day painting workshop from a teacher I have not taken from before - Al Tofanelli.  He was terrific!  We had a live model all 3 days of the workshop and did lots of small studies.  We started with  10 minutes value studies in black and white . . . here are three:

 The next day we stayed with faces, but moved to a limited palette - again, these are quick studies, not finished paintings:

The last day, we did figures - 40 minutes poses:

The workshop was super fun - only 6 of us in the class -- and on the last day, 4 of the 6 students had to leave at noon - so I had a semi-private lesson in the afternoon.  This workshop only reinforced that I love doing figurative work.
Linda