Tuesday, June 10, 2025

A visit to the Art Institute

 Since nobody else is posting I will post again to fill that vacuum because you know how Mother Nature feels about vacuums.  Had a little visit to the Art Institute this Sunday and wandered into a little nook chock full of John Constable and his ilk.  Trees, trees, trees, magnificent trees, magnificently painted trees, proud and plaintive.  I took photos, came back the next day and took more.  I have about eight of them and I am going to do sketches of them on 5x7 yupo.  I had second thoughts yesterday, won't I be just copying? But of course I don't have the ability to do that.  I will just start out that way and after that I will leave my ship to the tides and the storms like I always do.

I just finished the first one this morning, and of course I think it's great.  Here it is.


 And speaking of the Art Institute, you have to make a trip out there soon and see this:

https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/10569/raqib-shaw-paradise-lost

3 comments:

  1. I think it's great too. Yes, this is what trees on Yupo should be!

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  2. Well…..that’s the best one you’ve done. I’ve been waiting for you to make a stroke.

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