Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
The Magnificent 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.
Friday, October 24, 2025
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
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Alan Fall 25-4
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.
Monday, October 20, 2025
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.
Sunday, October 19, 2025
October 18, 2025 — Elaine O.
Class Photo — Fall 1 2025
Time for another group photo of some of our favorite artists. Looking...and painting...as good as ever!
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Big Fan
On every trip back into town I take a pic from the car of this, my favorite building. Depending on how close you get the size of the building on the right changes Thus my image is distorted and it should be much smaller
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Two croppings
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Opinions needed…I know you have them…
The pink mat is just for Pat....Ok, compare this crop to the first crop. This one has more tree, less mountains. Actually I like the stormy one but not sure they would go for it…Thanks Elaine foe solving my posting issues!
October 11, 2025 — Elaine O.
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Ss: Girl Gone 10.10.25
Friday, October 10, 2025
Schadt Retrospective
Scrolling through and admiring my phone photos, found this. Is it a seascape, a landscape, a triptych….what are those vertical lines? Sometimes they continue, but not always. And the color…what initially drew me to it continues to please me. I don’t think it was in a Ken show. I must have taken the photo in class
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Again nothing much
This started out as one of the puddle girls but now she is a Halloweenie.



 
































