Thursday is now Friday, so Friday is Saturday—it's officially the weekend. Our studio work week ends on Thursday at 5:30 pm, so we're off until Sunday when we start the week with all new poses. These two images are from this week, it's been challenging. But it's also been rewarding—I think I'm learning to see and handle more color in a different manner. More difficult than you would think, and odd how it drains the brain. When the model is posing, the studio gets very quiet except for the tap of palette knives, brushes scumbling, or creaky old floorboards and chairs. No walking around, no talking. Everyone disappears into their own zone for 25 minutes until the next five minute break. You're almost not conscious of anyone else being there, except when you listen to the instructor critique someone.