Summer Was Hanging On

 My front yard is jumbled and so is this

Then an image of Ocean Springs popped up and I had the right colors spilled out so…

More of the same….

 

I think all three of these are finished. I did another version of the banana plant and pot in class as a birthday card, but I forgot to photograph it before mailing it. I actually think it was a little better than this one. The middle panting is another version of the tree, which I like better than the first one (see last weeks feed) but it’s much different, so it’s hard to compare them. The sunset painting is done, imo, and I’m pretty happy with it. I put a blue wash over the sky, which really took it back in intensity and helped immensely. The girls and the bush are at different intensities, but I like that.

Couple trees

I like the action and the roughness in this one.

 

Some goofy stuff going on with this one.  Maybe a little touchup is needed for those clouds.

Ss Fixit111025

November 8, 2025 — Elaine O.

Two things to show this week. First, I've finished this and I'm happy with it. I like the play of light on his face and the tree. It just feels like a lazy, sunny summer day—and he's got green reflected light on his face without looking sick. 

14" x 11"

Then there's this one. Right now, I'm playing in my sketchbook, trying to figure out the story I want to tell. I was originally drawn to the vibrant colors in the crisp autumn sunlight. Then, there's the security guard watching his phone instead of the open door (although, to be fair, he was actually alert and not just lounging around). In the end, I may have a couple of different paintings. 

approx. 8" sq.

Ss The Conversation 11.8.25

 

La Chicqa part2

 

Ss:Triangle of My Sadness

 

Perylene and Golden Green and Indigo and Raw Sienna

 The second one was mostly p and golden green, and it was okay, but then I added indigo and raw sienna and liked it better.  The first one started with p and gold green very wet, but after blotting I mixed in the other two colors and I am hopeful for it. 

Alan Fall 25-5

 In collaboration with Ken, I worked on the garlic painting. Although I liked the texture of that shadow, it bothered me enough to get rid of it. So I wiped it off and feathered some other blues and yellows into it. I added a definite shadow into it defined the semi circles and think I made it better. 

This one is 16 X 12 Yupo. Just beginning but it’s going to be difficult. It’s just a single white rose but the trouble is going to be the white rose against a pale background and that’s what I want to do. And, like I said, if you screw up a wash on Yupo, just wipe the whole thing off and start again. But it’s alright so far. 

Variation on a Theme

 Placed Holly’s veggies in a bowl and did it again. 

Do-Over….

 

This is do-over week for me. I was very disappointed in last week’s paintings, so I decided to tackle the same subjects again, on better paper in some instances and taking more time and thought. I find it very difficult to wait for things to dry, so I work on all of these at the same time. These are still works in progress, except for the last one. I did that after watching a clouds/sunset tutorial. Changed the composition and using better paper for the next iteration….

3 studies….

These are nothing to write home about, but I guess they all focus on color mixing on paper, wet into wet.i just watched a sunset tutorial that demonstrated a slower more controlled technique, maybe I’ll give that a try. 
 

The Magnificent Seven

Or maybe the pretty good, or the not so bad, or the so so, or maybe just the, seven

 These are the seven crops of this one, which I did not like.

I was going to edit this using what I learned from the magnificent seven, but now I have kind of lost interest in it and I am thinking I may just give all seven 5x7 crops a 9x12 interpretation.

October 25, 2025 — Elaine O.

This is one of those paintings that needs a day away to decide you like where it's going. And now I'm hoping I don't ruin what I have. I also think this is going to be one of those slow-and-steady paintings, so you'll see me working on this for the next couple of weeks or so. Just a warning!

14" x 11"

It's a boy climbing a tree in summer, by the way.

It’s NOT a Pumpkin

 The title here is “Holly’s Harvest”.  My daughter thinks she’s gardening, but she’s really farming.  The orange tomato was huge making it look, against the other veggies, like a pumpkin  I like the composition  

  

Alan Fall 25-4

 11 1/2 X 14 on Yupo. Apples in pottery bowl in front of Ice Bucket. The composition is from Greeta. I thought it would make a good Yupo piece. It was a lot of effort because the background washes didn’t work. I finally just scrubbed the background out in preparation to try it again. As I was trying to think of what to do next, I just gave it another look and thought “Well hell….. I like this.”  So I just cleaned it up a bit and left it alone. 

Garlic bulb on a spoon rest on top of an electric stovetop. I don’t know what the hell happened here. I had an idea that just didn’t work to the point where I wondered what I was thinking in the first place. The reference photo looked good but I used a polypropylene medium that didn’t work as well as Yupo and stained more deeply so I couldn’t just wipe the color off.  I had to put the white back in with white crayon, white acrylic, gesso and Chinese white. Maybe the whole premise was off. Here’s the reference photo. 

And here’s my take. 

It’s amazing to me how badly I can paint. And I really spent some time and effort on this. Well I did like the circles. 

A process

 This is a tree that Constable painted.

This is the tree that Ken painted using Constable's image.  Ken was not very happy with it.  So he cropped seven views of Constable's tree, and painted each one.

These are all 5x7 and only the first two are done.  After I have finished all seven I am going to do more work on my original painting of Constable's work.

Mini landscape of Patagonia Mountains

 

October 18, 2025 — Elaine O.

I've spent many an hour at this bus stop waiting for the #50 bus. But few of those hours were in such fine weather. 

12" x 9"

Class Photo — Fall 1 2025

 Time for another group photo of some of our favorite artists. Looking...and painting...as good as ever!