observational work and excersizes

It certainly feels like the cold season has begun. We had our first fire today in the fireplace upstairs from my studio. Makes it a little more cozy. I haven't been doing any new paintings lately. Instead I'm focusing on working on different excersizes in our atelier. Anatomy studies, Barque copies, color studies, and lifedrawing. I'll be starting a new series that I know will take up a lot of my time, so I need to make sure to get in the habit of keeping up with my observational work now while I have the chance.