landscapes

Painted from photos I took: above, Hawk Mountain, in Pa., and below, a view from Espanola, NM.

Trying to convey space ...

still life

A small messy still life.

emily carr class

Took a London Drawing Group class on Emily Carr, a Canadian artist maybe best known for her idiosyncratic paintings of trees. Her work reminds me a bit of American Charles Burchfield.

It was a fun class, with timed drawings done with a brush.

nuthatch

                       5x7

Haven't had a chance to do much painting this week, or maybe it's that I'm vacillating about what to paint! 

facades

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Just playing around. Trying to paint a subject without the anxiety of trying to get it right or making it look good.

locust leaves

I picked up some yellow locust leaves on the walk recently and put them in my flower press to dry. When I checked on them they had all fallen off the stems. I thought I'd make a painting of them just as they appeared there; that's the painting below which, I don't know, lacked something.

Then for some reason I decided to make a collage in my phone of two photos of the painting, which is above, and which I kind of like ... 

This is another collage of the two photos which is not as successful. It reminds me of one of those Pennsylvania Dutch signs.

classwork

                                                  10x12

From my seascape class with Patrick Visser. Overwork did a bit and then lost patience. I need to train myself to stop when it's too wet ... I usually just keep adding paint which is pointless; it just diffuses into the paper. I am going to try to make an effort to let the paper dry. I could probably go back into this one when it's completely dry and refine some of the rock shapes and the shoreline. Maybe I will.

My value study: definitely need to make the water in the painting darker. I decided not to add seagulls to the beach because I felt I couldn't get their scale right.