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 Although I don’t know nuthin’ ‘bout boats this was the assignment in our class this week. I liked it. 

A little landscape painting of Front Beach. On 140# coldpress. 

Beginning of a Yupo painting of an Aloe plant in the backyard. This is just the “tea layer.”

Passing By

 Walking around town. 

Entrance to a large old house on a profusely planted lot. 

Mississippi is the Magnolia State, but the hot pink azalea is everywhere in Ocean Springs. 

Working, or overworking?

 I just subdued the basket shadow, which seems to make the painting work a little better. But this doesn’t have the ethereal nature of the earlier sketch. That seems to be the problem— I can’t capture the immediacy of my sketches in more thought-out paintings. But that’s probably a universal problem….I think I’m going to paint it one more time.

This is done. Since class I lightened the background and added more color to the flowers and stems and added the pattern to the white space. I like it.

I think this done too. I painted this in response to the painting above, which I did years ago. The earlier one is  a better painting imo. Maybe I will think about this one of Nora and see if I can paint it again to that level —or maybe I just need to frame it!

Summer Class for Watercolor

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The Haunted House

 More of a shed really but does hold down the corner in contrast to those spotty trees which I hope that I can get some fury out of on this dark and stormy night.

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 A weird combo of sketches and paintings this week. 

After looking at Elaine’s lovely painting I realized that I had left the darker colors out. And, as I was looking at the actual tree, I realized that I had left the resurrection ferns off too. These ferns cover the larger branches giving them a softer feel. 

Outside our door blooms this lovely Fire Azalea so I did a small ink sketch of it and washed it with paint.

There are spiderworts all over the ward so I painted this on a Yupo trading card while I was waiting for something else to dry.

For fun I’m including a stained glass mosaic of Walter Anderson that hangs in his family’s shop in Ocean Springs. One of my favorite pieces. 

 

Back to urban sketching.  Here’s Biloxi as seen from the Cafe Beignet,

And here’s a quick sketch of Front Beach in Ocean Springs. 

Most of these are small sketches but I think I might make a real painting out of the beach scene.

April 6, 2024 — Elaine O.

I'm calling this finished! It's Monet's water lily pond as seen from a wisteria covered bridge. Although it appears less gray, wintery and rain-soaked than the day I visited, it has the lush, verdant feel I remember. So, I'm happy with it.

11" x 14"

And now, on to something else. Fair warning, though—I suspect I'm still not finished with memories of France.

Have you heard of Alice Schille?

 American Watercolorist 1869-1955. I had never heard of her. Our class project was to copy one of her paintings. The teacher brought in a book about her. Lots of info about her on the internet. 

Alice’s painting:

My copy…I should have masked the ladder and pier. Gotta fix the boat reflection  

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With a little help from my friends and teachers I completed the green grapes watercolor. I could go on but unless I frame it it’s done. Started out as a negative painting. 

A little urban sketch of a sculpture in a yard in my neighborhood. 

You’ll have to take up the color of the hulls with Manet. Here’s the reference photo. 

And this is my watercolor version.  Does nobody believe that they didn’t paint hills with black enamel back in those days?  I thought I was done but was informed that I needed to go darker in several places.  The darker values made things pop.  So I’m replacing my original post with this one  

This is the latest version of my neighbor’s live oak.  Getting closer.  I tried to give it more a sense of place. I may work on this some more.

 

Copying Manet

 Our watercolor lesson at the Ohr O’Keefe Museum. We drew the image on 1 inch graph paper and then traced it to BFK paper. We had a. Regular  old fashioned color photo. 

The painting is an oil and in the original there’s a woman in a white dress on the left  that flash of white is from my phone camera  

My version .  One of my boats sank but I brought it back with white guoache